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Ferrabosco collaborated with Ben Jonson on several projects, including '' The Masque Of Blackness '' (1605), and wrote music for several other Masque s besides. His music was published by John Browne in 1609, including a number of settings of poems by John Donne and Thomas Campion , as well as Lute and viol music. He frequently wrote in the new declamatory Baroque style, and although he never went to Italy, he was well aware of contemporary Italian music. Ferrabosco the younger's reputation was built largely on his prowess as a viol player, and even more so his compositions for viol Consort . These were highly idiomatic works, with lots of divisions, and virtuosic lines. He also wrote many In Nomine s, which were great examples of that popular genre, without the pedantic bent many later In nomines were given to. Ferrabosco was also one of the first to write lyra viol music in tablature, along with Coprario , and wrote a book of ''Lessons'' for the lyra viol. Ferrabosco continually had difficulty with debts, and was involved in an unsuccessful scheme involving various rights on the River Thames , including dredging it for gravel, and imposing fines on people who caused a nuisance on it. REFERENCE Christopher D.S. Field. "Alfonso Ferrabosco (ii)", '' Grove Music Online '', ed. L. Macy (accessed January 30 2006 ), grovemusic.com (subscription access). |
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