- Thomas Campion
Thomas Campion, (sometimes Campian) (12 February 1567 – 1 March 1620) was an English
composer , poet andphysician .Biography
Campion was born in
London and studied atPeterhouse, Cambridge , but left without taking a degree. He later enteredGray's Inn to studylaw in 1586. However, he left in 1595 without having been called to the bar. On 10 February 1605 he received his medical degree from theUniversity of Caen .Campion was first published as a poet in 1591 with five of his works appearing in an edition of Sir
Philip Sidney 's "Astrophel and Stella". The "Songs of Mourning: Bewailing the Untimely Death of Prince Henry" (1613), were set to music by John Cooper. He also wrote a number of other poems as well as a book on poetry, "Observations in the Art of English Poesie" (1602), in which he criticises the practice of rhyming in poetry.Campion wrote over one hundred
lute song s in the "Books of Airs", with the first collection (co-written withPhilip Rosseter ) appearing in 1601 and four more following throughout the 1610s. He also wrote a number ofmasque s, including "Lord Hay's Masque " performed in 1607, along with "Somerset Masque" and "The Lord's Masque" which premiered in 1613. Some of Campion's works were quite ribald on the other hand, such as "Beauty, since you so much desire" (see media). In 1615 he published a book oncounterpoint , "A New Way of Making Fowre Parts in Counterpoint By a Most Familiar and Infallible Rule", which was regarded highly enough to be reprinted in 1660.He was implicated in the murder of Sir
Thomas Overbury , but was eventually exonerated, as it was found that he had delivered abribe unwittingly.Campion died in London, possibly of the plague.
Early
dictionary writers, such asFétis saw Campion as a theorist. It was much later on that people began to see him as acomposer .He was the writer of the well known poem,
Cherry Ripe .Media
References
*Christopher R. Wilson. "Thomas Campion", "Grove Music Online", ed. L. Macy (accessed 4 March 2006), [http://www.grovemusic.com/ grovemusic.com] (subscription access).
*David Lindley. Thomas Campion. Leiden, 1986
*François-Joseph Fétis, 'Campion' in: "Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique", 2nd edition, vol. 3, Paris, 1866.*Husoy, Lance Arthur. "Thomas Campion and the Web of Patronage."
* [http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0003/MQ34490.pdf A pdf about Campion]External links
*ChoralWiki
*IMSLP|id=Campion, Thomas|cname=Thomas Campion
*IckingArchive| idx=Campion|name=Thomas Campion*Thomas Campion several MIDI files [http://www.mylinuxisp.com/~tonyc/musgitar.htm#campion Tony Catalano's Classical Guitar MIDI Page]
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Canons of Elizabethan poetry Persondata
NAME= Campion, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Campian, Thomas
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Englishcomposer , poet andphysician
DATE OF BIRTH=12 February 1567
PLACE OF BIRTH=London , England
DATE OF DEATH=1 March 1620
PLACE OF DEATH=London, England
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