Shepherd, John

Shepherd, John
Shepherd, John
English musical composer (1512-1563)

Catholic Encyclopedia. . 2006.

Shepherd, John
     Catholic_Encyclopedia John Shepherd
    Musical composer, born about 1512; died about 1563; one of the great English musicians who rank with Tallis, Whyte, Taverner Farrant, Edwars, and Byrd. He was educated at St. Paul's music-school under Thomas Mulliner, and was appointed organist and master of the choristers of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1542, which position he held, with a short intermission, till 1547. His attention was not wholly given to music, at this date, for he obtained a fellowship in Magdalen College in 1549, retaining it for two years. On 21 April, 1554, he petitioned as a student of music for twenty years the University of Oxford for the Degree of Mus.D., and he was one of Queen Mary's Chapel Royal from 1553 to 1558. Among the New Year's gifts to Queen Mary, on 1 January, 1557, there is an entry in the Chapel Royal books that "Shepherd of the Chapel gave three Rolls of Songs". He was certainly alive in 1562, but there is no record of him after that date, from which it is concluded that he died, or resigned, in 1563. There exist numerous compositions printed as well as manuscripts testifying to Shepherd's undoubted powers. His "Esurientes" for five voices, while The Royal College of Music, London, has four of his Latin motets. The Music School, Oxford, possesses much of his church music, including a delightful Magnifcat. Hawkins has reprinted two of his pieces, and Morley names him among the distinguished musicians of the sixteenth century.
    BURNEY, General History of Music (London, 1776-89); MORLEY, Introd. To Practicall Musicke (London, 1597); WALKER, Hist. Of Music in England (Oxford, 1907); GROVE, Diet. Of Music and Musicians (London, 1904-10).
    W.H. GRATTAN-FLOOD
    Transcribed by Maria de Medina Dedicated to Teresita Guevara

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume VIII. — New York: Robert Appleton Company. . 1910.


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