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1574 - Born on the 7th of March at Brome in Norfolk, the son of a tanner, and received the patronage of the Cornwallis family.
1594 - He accompanied Elizabeth Cornwallis to Hengrave Hall near Bury St. Edmunds in around when she married Sir Thomas Kytson the Younger.
1600 - He was chosen to proofread John Dowland's Second Booke of Songs.
1608 - A set of madrigals by him appeared and a second, the two sets containing sixty-four pieces.
1628 - On the death of Elizabeth Cornwallis, Wilbye went to live with her daughter Mary Darcy, Countess Rivers in Colchester.
1638 - Died in September there in Colchester.
1594 - He accompanied Elizabeth Cornwallis to Hengrave Hall near Bury St. Edmunds in around when she married Sir Thomas Kytson the Younger.
1600 - He was chosen to proofread John Dowland's Second Booke of Songs.
1608 - A set of madrigals by him appeared and a second, the two sets containing sixty-four pieces.
1628 - On the death of Elizabeth Cornwallis, Wilbye went to live with her daughter Mary Darcy, Countess Rivers in Colchester.
1638 - Died in September there in Colchester.
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Yn iach, fwyn Amarilis, etc (Novello's Tonic Sol-fa Series) by John Wilbye (Unknown Binding - Aug 29, 2008) |
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Adieu sweet Amaryllis ... Adapted by E. H. Fellowes for Two Voices unaccompanied ... Tonic Sol-fa translation by H. J. Timothy by John Wilbye (Unknown Binding - Aug 29, 2008) |
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Adieu sweet Amaryllis ... Adapted by Edmund H. Fellowes for three voices unaccompanied from the original four-part setting (Part Songs) by John Wilbye (Unknown Binding - Aug 29, 2008) |
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Alas! what Hope of Speeding. Madrigal for four voices (Oriana. The Oriana, etc. No. 48. [1905, etc.]) by John Wilbye (Unknown Binding - Aug 29, 2008) |
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Alas, what Hope of Speeding ... For four-part chorus of mixed voices a cappella ... Arr. and ed. by Robert S. Hines by John Wilbye (Unknown Binding - Aug 29, 1969) |
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John Wilbye's First Set of Madrigals ... Away! thou shalt not love me. Edited and adapted for male voices by E. H. Fellowes (Male Voice Choir Library) by John Wilbye (Unknown Binding - Aug 29, 2008) |
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