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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.