Ravenscroft, Thomas
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Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1588 – 1635) was an English musician, theorist and editor, notable as a composer of roundsand catches, and especially for compiling collections of British folk music. Ravenscroft's principal contributions are his collections of folk music, including catches, rounds, street cries, vendor songs, "freeman's songs" and other anonymous music, in three collections: Pammelia (1609), Deuteromelia or The Seconde Part of Musicks Melodie (1609) and Melismata (1611), which contains one of the best-known works in his collections, The Three Ravens. Some of the music he compiled has acquired extraordinary fame, though his name is rarely associated with the music; for example "Three Blind Mice" first appears in Deuteromelia. He also published ametrical psalter (The Whole Booke of Psalmes) in 1621. As a composer, his works are mostly forgotten but include 11anthems, 3 motets for five voices and 4 fantasias for viols. [source from Wikipedia]
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