First published in 1999, this volume is the first full-length study to deal with the life and music of Orlando Gibbons since E.H. Fellowes's short book, originally published in 1923. 'It is clearly the result of extensive archival research, which has yielded quite a lot of new information about the Gibbons family ... the result of a great deal of original research.' The Musical Times '...future generations of readers will be glad to find much fundamental material and secondary consideration aggregated agreeably into a single volume, and this book is to be welcomed as the first study of this major composer to have appeared for many years.' Early Music 'At last we have the outstanding book about Orlando Gibbons that reflects his stature...This book is indispensable to all who know his music and to those encountering it for the first time.' Cathedral Music '...Harley is to be congratulated for having made considerable inroads into the study of this still under-appreciated music.' Times Literary Supplement '... a welcome addition... There is no question that Harley had done a very useful service not only for English musicology but also, one would like to think, performance as well.' Seventeenth-Century News '... the first comprehensive discussion of Gibbons's music in many years...' Notes 'Its undoubted strength is the genealogical and archival matter relating to the extended Gibbons family, much of which is previously unpublished.' Music and Letters 'John Harley's study of Orlando Gibbons blends a high level of archival research with a sensitive and thorough discussion of all the known music by this major English composer... This study of Gibbons (...) will undoubtedly be the definitive one for a long time.' Albion