“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