Bull, John

International Music Score Library Project [IMSLP] entry: John Bull

John Bull [1562/3-1628] was one of the great English composers of the period around 1600. Along with Byrd and Gibbons, he contributed to Parthenia, and the same three were leading representatives in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. Most of his work was for the virginals, a sort of harpsichord.

Piece	MP3	Midi	Genre
The King's Hunt		MIDI	harpsichord elizabethan FWVB
	The King's Hunt is piece CXXXV in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. The piece is in three sections, each of two parts, each of those with a variation. The piece evokes the galloping horses, the halloos, and the breathless pace of the hunt. You need agile fingers to get the runs and the repeated notes sorted in the second half or so. Sequenced mostly in 1995 from the 1963 Dover edition of the FWVB, edited by J A Fuller Maitland and W Barclay Squire, first published in 1899 by Breitkopf and Haertel.
Dr Bull's Juell		MIDI	harpsichord FWVB elizabethan
	Dr Bull's Juell [or Jewel] is piece CXXXVIII in the FWVB. Sequenced in 2022 from the Dover edition [see above]. Compared also with the version in Elizabethan Virginal Music, Universal Edition, 1938, edited for piano by Hans F Redlich. The piece consists of four main sections, though only three are written out, each followed by a variation. The apparent false notes seem to be intentional; on the other hand, almost all of the [relatively little] ornamentation is mine.

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