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I think the phrase "published in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book" is misleading, as the FVB is a manuscript, not a publication. I have changed to "has been preserved in...".

Good; thanks; you're correct, it was Tregian's MS.Antandrus(talk)16:59, 10 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The article makes no mention of his publication A Plaine amd Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke (1597). I always understood this to be an important work...but I'm no expert!

Could someone please organize this page as the other composers pages are?

Do you mean: lead paragraph, "Life", "Music and influence" ? It's almost that way right now, just lacking the subheads.Antandrus(talk)23:49, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

where did he die?andrew rickert07:03, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Denis Arnold says in theNew Oxford Companion to Music 'born Norwich c 1557; died London, in or after Oct. 1602'. Bob akaLinuxlad09:11, 13 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This magnificent portrait appears in both this Thomas Morley article and also that ofJohn Bull. I can't discover its whereabouts. It's not in theNational Portrait Gallery, London. Google Images have a lot of sites connecting it to Morley, but the inscription around its apparently contemporary frame definitely refers to Bull. Can anyone help with this conundrum? (I have posed the same question on the John Bull discussion page)Nick Michael (talk)

Thanks toAntandrus for removing the picture of John Bull. I didn't dare do it as there were so many clones on Google Images attributing it to Morley and I wondered if there were something I didn't know. I'd still like to know where the original is though...Nick Michael (talk)19:48, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently (according to G. Persoons: "De Orgels en de Organisten van de Onze Lieve Vrouwkerk te Antwerpen van 1500 tot 1650", Brussels 1981, the portrait (of John Bull!!) is located in the "Music School Collection" (probably "Faculty of Music") of the Oxford Library (http://www.music.ox.ac.uk/Library/).Thilo Muster, Basel, Switzerland— Precedingunsigned comment added by31.164.7.135 (talk)22:59, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

He is definitely John Bull. SeeEncyclopaedia Britannica,HOASM,musica omnia which shows a name plate at the painting[1].--Achim55 (talk)19:28, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article states that, "His famous setting of "It was a lover and his lass" from As You Like It has never been established as having been used in a performance of Shakespeare's play.[citation needed]"

I am not trying to refute this, but don't understand it. The song score still exists, and includes the lyrics. The exact same lyrics are included in the play which is printed in the first folio. On what basis would it be speculated that the song wasn't performed, or that some other unknown music was used instead?131.95.1.238 (talk)18:56, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I also wonder if the speculations are rightAnn Phoebe (talk)10:52, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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