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John Jenkins (composer)

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238: 356:; however, the melancholic pavans, meditative fantasias and vigorous allemands of Jenkins are closer in era, antique style and temperament, to his Norfolk contemporary than Bach. Jenkins may even have socially met or performed in the presence of Browne while employed in his retirement years by Sir 255: 247: 341:; indeed, Jenkins's music was more conservative than that of many of his contemporaries. It is characterised by a sensuous lyricism, highly skilled craftsmanship, and an original usage of tonality and counterpoint. 180:
he was certainly a happy person,....of an easy temper, superior in his profession, well accepted by all, knew no want, saw himself outrun by the world, and having lived a good Christian, died in peace
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Little is known of his early life. The son of Henry Jenkins, a carpenter who occasionally made musical instruments, he may have been the "Jack Jenkins" employed in the household of
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Tho' he for many years was incapable to attend, the Court musicians had so much value for him, that advantage was not taken, but he received his salary as they were paid
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broke out in 1642 it forced Jenkins, like many others, to migrate to the rural countryside. During the 1640s he was employed as music-master to two
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he obtained a place as a musician to the Royal Court. Although the viol consort was less fashionable in the court of king
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depicting the clash of opposing sides, the mourning for the dead and the celebration of victory after the siege of
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in Cambridgeshire, whose son Roger wrote his biography. It was in these years, during the Commonwealth under
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in 1603. The first positive historical record of Jenkins is amongst the musicians who performed the
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Jenkins was a long-active and prolific composer whose many years of life, spanning the time from
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Geoffrey Keynes (ed.), The Works of Sir Thomas Browne (London: Faber & Faber, 1964), 4 vols.
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Something of Jenkins's own temperament is indicated by his setting the religious poetry of
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Pavan Ă 6 in F, VdGS No.2, Oxford. Bodleian Library, Mus.Sch. c.83, II/2 (ca.1667)
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The Consort Music of William Lawes, 1602–1645, John Patrick Cunningham, page 184
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All in a Garden Green: Pavan, Newarke Seidge, 4-Part Ayres, Fantasia-Suite
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Double Reed Ensemble of New York Kammermusicker, Dorian DOR-90189 (1995)
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of Kimberley as correspondence between Browne and Wodehouse survives.
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Jenkins is buried in the nave of St. Peter's Church, Kimberley,
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The Mirrour and Wonder of his Age: John Jenkins Consort Music
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Six Airs: Almain, Pavane, Courante, Courante, Almain, Almain
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Performed by Phillip W. Serna, Treble, Tenor & Bass
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The Consort of Music, dir. Trevor Jones, Decca (1983)
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In the 1650s Jenkins became resident music-master of
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from the Viola da Gamba Society of America (VdGSA).
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John Jenkins (disambiguation)
Maidstone
Kimberley
Anne Russell, Countess of Warwick
masque
Charles I
lyra viol
English Civil War
Royalist
West Dereham
Hamon le Strange
Hunstanton
William Lawes
Chester
In Nomine
plainsong
programme music
pavane
galliard
Newark
Lord Dudley North
Oliver Cromwell
Restoration
Charles II
Roger North
George Herbert
Joseph Haydn
Norfolk
Pavan Ă 6 in F, VdGS No.2, Oxford. Bodleian Library, Mus.Sch. c.83, II/2 (ca.1667)
Viols

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