Canon
Where to start with Gibbons
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
Chamber2 Fantasias a4, MB24-25
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VocalAh, deere heart
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KeyboardAlman on the 1st tone, MB33
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KeyboardAlman on the 3rd tone, MB34
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KeyboardAlman on the 5th tone, MB35
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KeyboardAlman on the 8th tone, MB37
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VocalAlmighty God, who by thy Son
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VocalAlmighty and everlasting God
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VocalBehold, thou hast made my days
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VocalBlessed are all they that fear the Lord
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VocalCome, kiss me with those lips of thine
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KeyboardCoranto on the 1st tone, MB39
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KeyboardCoranto on the 3rd tone, MB40
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VocalDaintie fine bird
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VocalDrop, drop, slow tears
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Gibbons's catalogueMost Popular
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The Silver Swan (madrigal)
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Fantasia a 4 in D minor (keyboard)
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Lord Salisbury\’s Pavan and Galliard
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This Is the Record of John (verse anthem)
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Prelude in G major
Most Acclaimed
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Fantasias for keyboard (complete)
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Fantasia a 6 in G minor (strings)
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Consort music (complete)
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Verse anthems
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In Nomine settings
Most Weird
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Fantasia a 6 in G minorthe most chromatic English consort music of the period — predicts the expressive power of 17th-century German music
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Fantasia a 4 in A minorkeyboard — free-form exploration
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In Nomine settings (keyboard)all based on a cantus firmus from Taverner’s Gloria tibi Trinitas
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Pavan and Galliard in A minor ”Lord Salisbury”the pavan is unexpectedly dark for its context
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Go from My Window (keyboard variations)virtuosic keyboard variations on a popular tune
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 132
- Chamber
- 2 Fantasias a4, MB24-25
- Fantasia
- Fantasia a2, MB1
- Fantasia a2, MB4
- Fantasia a2, MB5
- Fantasia a2,, MB3
- Fantasia a3
- Fantasia a3
- Fantasia a3
- Fantasia a3
- Fantasia a3
- Fantasia a3, MB10
- Fantasia a3, MB11
- Fantasia a3, MB13
- Fantasia a3, MB15
- Fantasia a3, MB16
- Fantasia a3, MB7
- Fantasia a3, MB9
- Fantasia a6
- Fantasia a6
- Fantasia a6
- Fantasia a6
- Fantasia a6
- Fantasia a6
- Fantasia no. 1 for Great Double Bass
- Galliard a3, MB23
- Galliard a6
- Go from my window: Variations a6, MB40
- Pavan a6
- Vocal
- Ah, deere heart
- Almighty God, who by thy Son
- Almighty and everlasting God
- Behold, thou hast made my days
- Blessed are all they that fear the Lord
- Come, kiss me with those lips of thine
- Daintie fine bird
- Drop, drop, slow tears
- Faire is the rose
- First preces and Psalm 145 for Evensong on Whitsunday, for voices
- Glorious and powerful God
- Great King of Gods
- Hosanna to the son of David
- I am the resurrection
- I tremble not at noise of war
- I waigh not fortune's frowne
- If ye be risen again with Christ
- Lift up your heads
- Lord, we beseech thee, pour thy grace
- Now shall the praises of the Lord be sung
- O God, the King of Glory
- O Lord, I lift my heart to thee
- O Lord, Increase my faith
- O Lord, how do my woes increase
- O Lord, in thy wrath rebuke me not
- O Thou, who at thy Eucharist did pray
- O all true faithful hearts
- O clap your hands
- Out of the deep
- Pavan
- Praise the Lord, O my soul
- Second Service, for 1-5 voices and organ
- See, the word is incarnate
- Short Service
- Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints
- So God loved the world
- The Cryes of London
- The Hymnes and Songs of the Church
- The Silver Swanne
- This is the Record of John
- We praise thee, O Father
- What is our life?
- Keyboard
- Alman on the 1st tone, MB33
- Alman on the 3rd tone, MB34
- Alman on the 5th tone, MB35
- Alman on the 8th tone, MB37
- Coranto on the 1st tone, MB39
- Coranto on the 3rd tone, MB40
- Fantasia in A minor
- Fantasia in C
- Fantasia no. 1 in D minor
- Fantasia no. 10 in C
- Fantasia no. 2 in D minor
- Fantasia no. 3 in D minor
- Fantasia no. 4 in D minor
- Fantasia no. 5 in G minor
- Fantasia no. 6 in A minor
- Fantasia no. 7 in A minor
- Fantasia no. 8 in A minor
- Fantasia no. 9 in C
- Fantasia on the 1st tone, MB6
- Fantasia on the 1st tone, for double organ, MB7
- Fantasia on the 2nd tone, MB8
- Fantasia on the 2nd tone, MB9
- Fantasia on the 3rd tone, MB12
- Fantasia on the 5th tone, MB14
- French Air, MB32
- French Alman, MB41
- French Coranto, MB38
- Galliard a3
- Galliard on the 1st tone, MB21
- Galliard on the 1st tone, MB22
- Galliard on the 1st tone, MB23
- Galliard on the 3rd tone, MB24
- Galliard on the 5th tone, MB25
- Ground on the 3rd tone, MB26
- In Nomine no. 1
- In nomine
- Lady Hatton's galliard, MB20
- Lincoln's Inn mask, MB44
- Lord Salisbury's Pavan and Galliard, MB18 and 19
- Pavan on the 1st tone, MB15
- Pavan on the 2nd tone, MB16
- Pavan on the 3rd tone, MB17
- Peascod Time, MB30
- Prelude on the 1st tone, MB3
- Prelude no. 1 in A minor
- Prelude no. 2 in G
- Prelude no. 3 in D minor
- Prelude no. 4 in A minor
- Prelude on the 3rd tone, MB1
- Prelude on the 8th tone, MB2
- Preludium in G
- The Fairest Nymph, mask, MB43
- The Italian Ground, MB27
- The King's jewel, alman, MB36
- The Queen's Command, MB28
- The Temple Mask, MB45
- The Woods So Wild, MB29
- Voluntary
- Voluntary in A
- Welcome Home, mask, MB42
- Whoop, do me no harm good man, MB31