- Case, John
[E] Case, John, physician and writer, was
born at Woodstock about the middle of the
16th century. Chorister at New College and
Christ College, Oxford. Fellow of St. John's
College, Oxford. Lecturer at Oxford. He
died in January, 1600.[W] Works. — The Praise of Musicke, wherein
its Antiquity, Dignity, Delectation, and Use,
are discussed, Oxford, 1586. Apologia Musices,
tern vocalis quam instrumentalis et mixtas,
Oxford, 1588. Philosophical works, etc. The
" Praise of Musicke " is an exceedingly quaint
work, and at the present date of great rarity.
The writer was an enthusiast of the highest
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