Orlando Gibbons

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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.


— Orlando Gibbons


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The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.


— Orlando Gibbons


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He also produced two major settings of Evensong the Short Service and the Second Service. He was a leading composer in the England of his day. Yet notwithstanding we to give full satisfaction to all did cause the skull to be opened in our presence & we carefully viewed the body which we found also to be very clean without any show or spot of any contagious matter.

He was a leading composer in the England of his day.