“I see not, if souls do not partly consist of music, how it should come…” — Thomas Weelkes

“I see not, if souls do not partly consist of music, how it should come to pass that so noble a spirit as yours, so perfectly tuned to so perpetual a tenor of excellencies as it is, should descend to the notice of a quality lying single in so low a personage as myself.”

Links the soul itself to musical harmony in a dedicatory conceit · Dedication to Henry Lord Windsor, Madrigals of 5 and 6 Parts, 1600

Thomas Weelkes

About Thomas Weelkes

25 October 1576–November 1623

In the golden twilight of the English Renaissance, when the echoes of Shakespeare's verse still rang through London's theaters and the madrigal reached its most exquisite flowering, Thomas Weelkes emerged as one of the most distinctive and emotionally powerful composers of his generation. Born around 1576 and dying in…

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