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According to The New Penguin Dictionary of Music, Orlando Gibbons was an English composer, also virginalist and organist; his father William, brothers Edward, Ellis, and Ferdinando, and son Christopher were also musicians. Choirboy at Kin's College, Cambridge; later organist at Chapel royal and Westminster Abbey. Works include about 40 anthems and other church music; notably expressive madrigals; In Nomines and other works for viols; keyboard pieces.
Sheet Music:
Recorder sheet music at SheetMusicPlus.com
Websites:
Midi World Early Music , midis for O. Gibbons
GIBBONS, ORLANDO BIOGRAPHY by www.naxos.com.
Books:
[§] Vol. 48) Consort Music (Musica Britannica : A National Collection of Music by Orlando Gibbons
[§] Orlando Gibbons and His Family : The Last of the Tudor School of Musicians by Edmund Horace Fellowes
[§] Orlando Gibbons and the Gibbons Family of Musicians by John Harley
Recorder Music CDs:
Brisk Recorder Consort on "The King's Private Musick"
Scott Reiss on "The Food of Love"
Marion Verbruggen on "The Golden Dream-17th Century Music from the Low Countries"
Marion Verbruggen on "The Golden Dream-17th Century Music from the Low Countries"