“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).”
About Thomas Morley
c. 1557–October 1602
In the golden twilight of Elizabeth I's reign, when England's cultural confidence soared as high as her naval ambitions, there emerged a composer whose melodies would capture the very essence of Renaissance joy and melancholy. Thomas Morley, born around 1557 in the bustling city of Norwich, would become the architect…