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Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger

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36: 53: 159: 45: 52: 54: 134:. Although Alfonso the elder asked for Alfonso the younger to be sent to him in Italy, where he had moved with his wife, the Queen insisted that he stay in England. Ferrabosco remained in Gomer van Awsterwyke's care until Awsterwyke's death in 1592. At this time he started a long career as a court musician. 261:(baptised 1626, died 1682) all of whom were musicians. Two of his daughters are known to have married musicians: Elizabeth married George Bunckley, and Catherine married Edward Coleman. Coleman was a court musician after the 126:. His mother might have been Susanna Symons, whom Alfonso the elder later married. Ferrabosco the younger was left under the guardianship of Gomer van Awsterwyke, a member of Queen 196:
and viol music. He frequently wrote in the new declamatory Baroque style, and although he never went to Italy, he was well aware of contemporary Italian music.
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Ferrabosco the younger's reputation was built largely on his prowess as a viol player, and even more so his compositions for viol
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Ferrabosco continually had difficulty with debts, and was involved in an unsuccessful scheme involving various rights on the
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Fantasia 'On the Hexachord' à4, VdGS No.10 - The Hexachord Ascending, Oxford. Christ College, Mus.Ms.436 (ca.1630)
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besides. His music was published by John Browne in 1609, including a number of settings of poems by
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and a groom of privy chamber, with a salary of £50. Ferrabosco was paid for "making the songs" for
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which were great examples of that popular genre, without the pedantic bent many later
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In January 1612 Ferrabosco the younger married Ellen (died 1638) (daughter of
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Ashbee, Andrew (January 2008j) . "Ferrabosco, John (bap. 1626, d. 1682)".
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Ashbee, Andrew (January 2008f) . "Ferrabosco, Alfonso (c. 1575–1628)".
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Field, Christopher D.S. "Alfonso Ferrabosco (ii)". In Macy, L. (ed.).
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Anna of Denmark: The Material and Visual Culture of the Stuart Courts
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and both of them are known to have sung in theatre productions.
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on the 11th of that month, in his home village of Greenwich.
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A poem addressed to Ferrabosco from Jonson in the former's
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possessed. Ferrabosco was also one of the first to write
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Performed by Phillip W. Serna, Treble, Tenor & Bass
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Alfonso Ferrabosco III
Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder
Fantasia 'On the Hexachord' à4, VdGS No.10 - The Hexachord Ascending, Oxford. Christ College, Mus.Ms.436 (ca.1630)
Viols
media help
English
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Italian
Renaissance
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Greenwich
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Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder
Elizabeth I
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Union of the Crowns
Prince Henry
Anne of Denmark's
The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses

Ben Jonson
The Masque of Blackness
masques
John Donne
Thomas Campion
lute
consort
In Nomines
lyra viol

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