The British Musical Biography

[E] Marbeck, John, or Merbecke, writer,
composer, and organist, born in 1.523. Chor-
ister in St, George's Chapel, Windsor, 1531.
Embraced Protestant faith, and narrowly
escaped being burned for heresy, 1544. Taken
under the patronage of the Bishop of Win-
chester. Mus. Bac, Oxon., 1550. He died
about 1585.

[W] Works. — The Book of Common Praicr,
Noted, London, 1550. A Concordance, that
is to sale, a worke wherein by the ordre of the
letters of A, B, C, ye maye redelye finde any
worde contayned in the wliole, so often as it
is there expressed or mentioned, London,
1550 ; The Lyves of the Holy Sainctes, Pro-
phets, Patriarchs, and others, contained in
Holye Scripture, 1574 ; The Holie Historic of
King David, etc., 1579; Book of Notes and
Common Places, gathered out of divers
writers, 1581.

[+] Marbeck re-set the English Church Service
almost in its entirety, and is said to have
influenced later composers in the style of
ecclesiastical composition. His setting con-
tinued in use during the many fluctuations
in musical taste, which have been witnessed
since his time, and is .still in use, though not
wholly.

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