“Most of our churchmen, so they can cry louder in their choir than their fellows, care for no more, whereas by the contrary they ought to study how to vowel and sing clean, expressing their words with devotion and passion.”

Criticising poor singing in church and urging expressive performance · A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke (1597)

• Music
• Skill
• Worship

“This kind of all others which are made on a ditty requireth most art and moveth and causeth most strange effects in the hearer, being aptly framed for the ditty and well expressed by the singer.”

On the power of well-set sacred music to move the listener · A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke (1597)

• Art
• Devotion
• Music

“If therefore you will compose in this kind, you must possess yourself with an amorous humour (for in no composition shall you prove admirable except you put on and possess yourself wholly with that vein wherein you compose).”

On the necessity of fully entering the emotional mood of a madrigal · A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke (1597)

• Composition
• Emotion
• Music