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Note there are two contemporaries named Robert Parsons. The first (also spelt Robert Persons) is an Anglo-Catholic/Jesuit priest who lived from 1546-1610, whilst the other is Robert Parsons, the composer, whose dates are thought to be c.1530-1572.
Robert Parsons was perhaps born c.1530. That he was of no great age when he died in 1572 is implied by a comment made by Robert Dow in his partbooks which, in translation, reads "Parsons, who were so great in your first flowering, How great should you have been in your autumn, had you not died!" The earliest reference to him occurs in the later part of 1560 when he collected payments from the Exchequer on behalf of Richard Bower, the Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal. It is thought that he may have been an assistant schoolmaster to Bower. In 1563 Parsons was admitted into the choir of the Chapel Royal. He died on 25 January 1572 (new style) when he drowned at Newark, an area historically prone to flooding by the River Trent. His place in the Chapel Royal was filled by William Byrd. Parsons needs to be distinguished firstly from the Jesuit priest Robert Persons (1546-1610) and secondly from the apparently unrelated younger composer Robert Parsons II (1596-1676) who was a lay vicar at Exeter Cathedral.


==List of choral works==
==List of choral works==
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==={{flag|English}} English works===
==={{flag|English}} English works===
{{top}}
*'''{{NoCo|The First Service}}'''
*'''{{NoCo|The First Service}}'''
**{{NoCo|Venite, exultemus (from The First Service)|Venite, exultemus}} &nbsp; ( [http://www.millertheatre.com/parsons/english.html {{net}}] )
**{{NoCo|Venite, exultemus (from The First Service)|Venite, exultemus}}
**{{NoCo|Te Deum laudamus (from The First Service)|Te Deum laudamus}} &nbsp; ( [http://www.millertheatre.com/parsons/english.html {{net}}] )
**{{NoCo|Te Deum laudamus (from The First Service)|Te Deum laudamus}}
**{{NoCo|Benedictus es, Dominus (from The First Service)|Benedictus es, Dominus}} &nbsp; ( [http://www.millertheatre.com/parsons/english.html {{net}}] )
**{{NoCo|Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel (from The First Service)|Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel}}
**{{NoCo|Decalogue Responses (from The First Service)|Decalogue Responses ("Kyrie")}} &nbsp; ( [http://www.millertheatre.com/parsons/english.html {{net}}] )
**{{NoCo|Decalogue Responses (from The First Service)|Decalogue Responses ("Kyrie")}}
**{{NoCo|Credo (from The First Service)|Credo}} &nbsp; ( [http://www.millertheatre.com/parsons/english.html {{net}}] )
**{{NoCo|Credo (from The First Service)|Credo}}
**{{NoCo|Magnificat (from The First Service)|Magnificat}} &nbsp; ( [http://www.millertheatre.com/parsons/english.html {{net}}] )
**{{NoCo|Magnificat (from The First Service)|Magnificat}}
**{{NoCo|Nunc dimittis (from The First Service)|Nunc dimittis}} &nbsp; ( [http://www.millertheatre.com/parsons/english.html {{net}}] )
**{{NoCo|Nunc dimittis (from The First Service)|Nunc dimittis}}
 
{{mdl}}
*'''{{NoCo|The Second 'Excellent' Service for Means}}'''
*'''{{NoCo|The Second 'Excellent' Service for Means}}'''
**{{NoCo|Venite (from The Second 'Excellent' Service for Means)|Venite}} &nbsp; ( [http://www.millertheatre.com/parsons/english.html {{net}}] )
**{{NoCo|Venite (from The Second 'Excellent' Service for Means)|Venite}}
**{{NoCo|Te Deum Laudamus (from The Second 'Excellent' Service for Means)|Te Deum Laudamus}} &nbsp; ( [http://www.millertheatre.com/parsons/english.html {{net}}] )
**{{NoCo|Te Deum Laudamus (from The Second 'Excellent' Service for Means)|Te Deum Laudamus}}
**{{NoCo|Benedictus (from The Second 'Excellent' Service for Means)|Benedictus}} &nbsp; ( [http://www.millertheatre.com/parsons/english.html {{net}}] )
**{{NoCo|Benedictus (from The Second 'Excellent' Service for Means)|Benedictus}}
**{{NoCo|Decalogue Response, 'Kyrie' (from The Second 'Excellent' Service for Means)|Decalogue Response, 'Kyrie'}} &nbsp; ( [http://www.millertheatre.com/parsons/english.html {{net}}] )
**{{NoCo|Decalogue Response, 'Kyrie' (from The Second 'Excellent' Service for Means)|Decalogue Response, 'Kyrie'}}
**{{NoCo|Credo (from The Second 'Excellent' Service for Means)|Credo}} &nbsp; ( [http://www.millertheatre.com/parsons/english.html {{net}}] )
**{{NoCo|Credo (from The Second 'Excellent' Service for Means)|Credo}}
 
The evening canticles to the Second Service were composed by [[William Mundy]] in tribute to Parsons.
*''[[Magnificat (William Mundy)]]''
*''[[Nunc Dimittis (William Mundy)]]''
{{btm}}
====English anthems====
====English anthems====
*{{NoCo|Deliver me from mine enemies}} &nbsp; {{editions|3}}
*{{NoCo|Deliver me from mine enemies}}
*{{NoCo|Holy Lord God Almighty}} &nbsp; {{editions|2}}
*{{NoCo|Holy Lord God Almighty}}


====Consort songs====
====Consort songs====
*{{NoCo|Abradad: Alas you salt sea gods}} &nbsp; ( [http://www.millertheatre.com/parsons/consort.html {{net}}] )
*{{NoCo|Abradad: Alas you salt sea gods}}
*{{NoCo|Enforced by Love and Fear}} &nbsp; ( [http://www.millertheatre.com/parsons/consort.html {{net}}] )
*{{NoCo|Enforced by Love and Fear}}
*{{NoCo|No grief is like to mine}} &nbsp; ( [http://www.millertheatre.com/parsons/consort.html {{net}}] )
*{{NoCo|No grief is like to mine}}
*{{NoCo|Pour down you powers divine}} &nbsp; ( [http://www.millertheatre.com/parsons/consort.html {{net}}] )
*{{NoCo|Pour down you powers divine}}
*{{NoCo|When I look back}}


==={{flag|Latin}} Latin works===
==={{flag|Latin}} Latin works===
*{{NoCo|Ave Maria}} &nbsp; {{editions|3}}
{{top}}
*{{NoCo|Credo quod redemptor meus vivit}} &nbsp; {{editions|3}}
*{{NoCo|Ave Maria}}
*{{NoCo|Domine, quis habitabit}} &nbsp; {{editions|2}}
*{{NoCo|Credo quod redemptor meus vivit}}
*{{NoCo|Iam Christus Astra Ascenderat}} &nbsp; {{editions|2}}
*{{NoCo|Domine, quis habitabit}}
*{{NoCo|Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna}} &nbsp; {{editions|2}}
*{{NoCo|Iam Christus astra ascenderat}}
*{{NoCo|Magnificat}} &nbsp; {{editions|2}}
*{{NoCo|In manus tuas}}
*{{NoCo|O bone Jesu}} &nbsp; {{editions|2}}
{{mdl}}
*{{NoCo|Peccantem me quotidie}} &nbsp; {{editions|2}}
*{{NoCo|Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna}}
*{{NoCo|Retribue servo tuo}} &nbsp; {{editions|3}}
*{{NoCo|Magnificat}}
 
*{{NoCo|O bone Jesu}}
*{{NoCo|Peccantem me quotidie}}
*{{NoCo|Retribue servo tuo}}
{{btm}}
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==Publications==
==Publications==


==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.millertheatre.com/parsons/index.html Parsons Project]
* [http://216.24.170.147/parsons/index.html Parsons Project]


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Revision as of 07:03, 28 May 2020

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Life

Born: c.1530

Died: 25 January 1571/2

Biography

View the Wikipedia article on Robert Parsons.

Robert Parsons was perhaps born c.1530. That he was of no great age when he died in 1572 is implied by a comment made by Robert Dow in his partbooks which, in translation, reads "Parsons, who were so great in your first flowering, How great should you have been in your autumn, had you not died!" The earliest reference to him occurs in the later part of 1560 when he collected payments from the Exchequer on behalf of Richard Bower, the Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal. It is thought that he may have been an assistant schoolmaster to Bower. In 1563 Parsons was admitted into the choir of the Chapel Royal. He died on 25 January 1572 (new style) when he drowned at Newark, an area historically prone to flooding by the River Trent. His place in the Chapel Royal was filled by William Byrd. Parsons needs to be distinguished firstly from the Jesuit priest Robert Persons (1546-1610) and secondly from the apparently unrelated younger composer Robert Parsons II (1596-1676) who was a lay vicar at Exeter Cathedral.

List of choral works

English.png English works

The evening canticles to the Second Service were composed by William Mundy in tribute to Parsons.

English anthems

Consort songs

Latin.png Latin works


Click here to search for this composer on CPDL

Publications

External links