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TheEnglish Virginalist School usually refers to the Englishkeyboard composers of the lateTudor and earlyJacobean periods. The termvirginalist does not appear to have been applied earlier than the 19th century. Although thevirginals were among the most popular keyboard instruments of this period, there is no evidence that the composers wrote exclusively for this instrument, and their music is equally suited to theharpsichord, theclavichord or thechamber organ.

The term is sometimes also applied to other northern European composers of this period, such asJan Pieterszoon Sweelinck andSamuel Scheidt.

• Virginals
• Composers of the Tudor period

• Glyn, Margaret H. (1916–17). "The National School of Virginal Music in Elizabethan Times".Proceedings of the Musical Association.43:29–49.doi:10.1093/jrma/43.1.29.JSTOR 765612.

• Charles Van den Borren,Les origines de la musique de clavier en Angleterre, Brussels, 1912 (Reprint : Louvain, 1979)
• Walter Niemann,Die Virginalmusik, Leipzig, 1919
• Margaret Glyn,About Elizabethan Virginal Music and its Composers, London, 1924 (revised 1934)
• R.L. Adams,The Development of Keyboard Music in England during the English Renaissance, Diss., University of Washington, 1960
• Willi Apel,The History of Keyboard Music to 1700, Indiana University Press, 1972, p. 156–164, 253–258, 278–287, 293–323.

• Composers of the Tudor period
• English composers
• English Renaissance
• Renaissance composers
• Stuart England

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