Giles Farnaby
Aliases: Farnaby, Gilles
Life
Born: 1563
Died: 1640
Biography
Giles Farnaby was born in 1560 in Truro, Cornwall, the son of Thomas Farnaby, a scholar and schoolmaster. It seems it was his cousin, Nicholas, a maker of virginals, who turned him to music and it is for his contributions to the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book that Giles Farnaby is best known today, although he also composed madrigals, canzonets and psalms.
In 1592 He graduated from the University of Oxford receiving a Bachelor’s degree in music and his musical output includes a total of 52 pieces which were included in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book along with 4 pieces by his son, Richard.
He died, in London, in November 1640.
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List of choral works
- For works at CPDL sorted alphabetically by title, see Giles Farnaby compositions
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Sacred music
- I did in heart rejoice ( LilyPond )
- St Flavian CM Psalm tune ( )
Secular music
- Among the Daffadillies (3 editions available)
- Ay me, poor heart! (3 editions available)
- Blind Love was shooting (3 editions available)
- Carters, now cast down your whips (3 editions available)
- Construe my meaning (5 editions available)
- Curtain drawn, The (3 editions available)
- Daphne on the rainbow riding (3 editions available)
- Lady, the silly flea (3 editions available)
- Lady, when I behold your passions (3 editions available)
- Love shooting among many (3 editions available)
- Love shooting at another (3 editions available)
- My Lady's coloured cheeks (2 editions available)
- Pearce did dance with Petronella (3 editions available)
- Pearce did love fair Petronel (2 editions available)
- Phillida Bewailed (3 editions available)
- Simkin said that Sis was fair (3 editions available)
- Sometime she would (4 editions available)
- Susanna fair (3 editions available)
- Thrice blessed be the giver (3 editions available)
- Wavering planet, The (3 editions available)
- Witness, ye heavens (2 editions available)
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