Peerson, Martin

International Music Score Library Project [IMSLP] entry: Martin Peerson

Martin Peerson [~1571-~1651] was an English composer of sacred and secular music, most of which is now lost.

Piece	MP3	Midi	Genre
The Primerose		MIDI	harpsichord elizabethan FWVB
	The Primrose is piece #CCLXXI of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, the principal source of Peerson's few extant keyboard pieces. It depicts Spring in two sections, each with a variation. There is a corresponding Autumn piece immediately after it in the FWVB, see below. Sequencing mostly done in 1995 from my Dover edition of the FWVB.
The Fall of the Leafe		MIDI	harpsichord elizabethan FWVB
	The Fall of the Leafe is piece #CCLXXII of the FWVB, see above, immediately following The Primerose. It depicts Autumn in two sections, each with a variation. See also, above, the corresponding Spring piece immediately before it in the FWVB. Sequencing mostly done in 1995 from my Dover edition of the FWVB. These two pieces are rather early examples of character pieces, depicting in sound the nature of the seasons.

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