Robert Cowper (composer)
Robert Cowper or Robert Cooper (c. 1465–1539/40) was an English composer. He studied music at the University of Cambridge and sang as a lay-clerk there in the Choir of King's College. He was later appointed master of the choristers of the household chapel of Lady Margaret Beaufort.[1]
He composed both sacred and secular music, including masses, motets and madrigals. The Gyffard partbooks contain a four part setting of Hodie composed by Cowper with John Taverner and Thomas Tallis.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Fiona Kisby (1997). "A mirror of monarchy: Music and musicians in the household chapel of the Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII". Early Music History. 16: 203–234. doi:10.1017/S0261127900001728. S2CID 191989186.
- ^ John Harley (2015). Thomas Tallis. Routledge. ISBN 9781472428066.
Notes
[edit]- "Roger Bowers, 'Cowper , Robert (c.1465–1539/40)'". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2004.
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