John Bull
About the artist
John Bull (1562/63–1628) was an English composer, musician, and organ builder. He was a renowned keyboard performer and most of his compositions were written for this medium. Bull's place of birth is shrouded in uncertainty. In 1573 he joined the choir at Hereford cathedral, and the next year joined the Children of the Chapel Royal in London, where he studied with John Blitheman and William Hunnis; in addition to singing he learnt to play the organ at this time.
Top songs
- Prelude for organ
- My Grief
- Fantasy for organ
- In Nomine à 5 I
- Prelude "Laet ons met herten reijne" (MB 14/56; BL Add. MS 23623 f. 65)
- Pavane
- Fantasia (Fitzwilliam 108)
- Why Ask You II, MB 63
- Coranto: Alarm - Instrumental
- In Nomine in 11/4
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- My Self
- The King's Hunt
- Почему ты спрашиваешь?
- Bull: Melancholy Galliard
- In Nomine à 5 for 5 Viols, Lute
- Les Buffons - 15 Variations (MB 19/101; BL Add. MS 23623 f. 22)
- A Gigge: Dr. Bull's My Selfe
- Een kindeken is ons geboren
- English toy
- In nomine
- Een kindeken is ons geboren (MB 14/53) - Musical Moments
- Musica Britannia: No. 12, In Nomine
- Let ons met herten reijne
- Bull: Melancholy Pavan
- Irish Toy
- Gloria Tibi Trinitas, Fvb 44
- Fantastic Galliard (Fitzwilliam 35; MB 19/86b)
- Prelude (Fitzwilliam 43)
- Walsingham, MB 85
- Walsingham
- The King's Hunting Jig
- Fantastic Pavan (Fitzwilliam 34; MB 19/86a)
- Why aske you
- Bull's Goodnight
- Walsingham - 30 Variations (Fitzwilliam 1; MB 19/85)
- Carol "Laet ons met herten reijne" (MB 14/56; BL Add. MS 23623 f. 65)
- Canons 51 - 48 - 39 - 7 - 15 - 114 (ÖNB Mus. Hs. 17771)
- Prelude, Mb 117
- Dutch dance
- Prelude
- Fantasia on a Fugue of Sweelinck (MB 14/4; BL Add. MS 23623 f. 52)
- Bull's Goodnight, MB 143
- Fantasia
- Germain's alman
- Lord Lumley's Galliard
- Pavan in the second tone
- Almighty God, which by the leading of a star
- My Grief (Fitzwilliam 190; MB 19/139)
- The Duke of Brunswick's Alman
- Lord Lumley's Pavan
- Queen Elizabeth’s (Chromatic) Pavan (MB 19/87a)
- Lord Lumley's Pavan, MB 129a
- In Nomine IX
- Melancoly galliard
- Galliard
- The King's Hunt, MB 125
- St. Thomas Wake Pavan and Galliard (Musica Britannica, Vol. 19, No. 126): Galliard
- Fantasia (No. 16)
- Walsingham, I
- Melancholy Pavan (MB 19/67a)
- In Nomine à 5
- John Bull: He's O.K
- Prelude: Doric Music (Musica Britannica, Vol. 14, No. 59)
- Prelude and Carol "Laet ons met herten reijne", MB 56
- Lord Lumley's Galliard, MB 129b
- The Bull Masque
- My Grief, MB 139
- Prelude, MB 84
- Melancholy Pavan
- My Selfe, MB 138
- Musica Britannia: No. 78, Galliard
- Gaillard to the pavan
- Pavan fantastic
- Galiarda
- Chromatic pavan
- Canons 68 - 78 - 79 - 65 - 3 - 53 (ÖNB Mus. Hs. 17771)
- Pavan No. 2: Pavan in the Second Tone (Musica Britannica, Vol. 19, No. 77)
- Fantasia, MB 12
- The Spanish Pavan
- Musica Britannia: No. 10, Fantasia
- doctor bull's good night
- Telluris ingens conditor: Nos. 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 (MB 14/47; BL Add. Ms 23623 f. 170)
- Laet ons met herten reijne
- Lord Lumley's gaillard
- Why Ask You I, MB 62
- Fantasia (Musica Britannica, Vol. 14, No. 5)
- Ut re mi fa so la
- Chromatic gaillard
- Fantastic Galliard, MB 86b
- Piper's Galliard, CLXXXII
- In Nomine XII
- Melancholy Pavan, MB 67a
- Fantastic Pavan, MB 86a
- Why ask you III, MB 64
- Fantasia (Musica Britannica, Vol. 14, No. 12)
- Bonny Sweet Robin, MB 65
- Galiarda (arr. for guitar quartet)
- Dr. Bull's Juel
- Pavan, MB 66a
- Melancholy Galliard, MB 67b
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