John Weeks Moore

“ In a magnificent folio manuscript, curiously bound in red morocco, which is generally known by the name of Queen Elizabeth's virginal book, there are nearly seventy of his compositions.
It has been imagined that the rage for variations, that is, multiplying notes, and disguising the melody of an easy and generally well-known air, by every means that a note-splitter sees possible, was the contagion of the present century ”

“ It is the onlie way when nature hath bestowed the benefit of a good voyse ; which gift is so rare, as there is not one among a thou-sand that hath it; and in mannie that excellent gift is lost, because they want the art to express nature.
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There is not any musicke of instruments whatsoever comparable to that which is made by the voyces of men, when the voyces are good, and the same well sorted and ordered. ”