Michael East

Aliases: Michael Este

Life

Born: c. 1580

Died: 1648

English composer. Probably the son of Thomas East. Provided a madrigal to The Triumphs of Oriana (1601); took a B.Mus. at Cambridge in 1606; perhaps served the Hatton family for a time; cited as a clerk at Ely Cathedral, 1609–14. He was master of the choristers at Lichfield by 1618; supplied an anthem for St. John's College, Oxford, in 1620. He issued seven publications: two madrigal books (1604, 1606); two varied collections of madrigals, consort songs, and anthems, the earlier print also containing a series of viol fancies (1610, 1618); two books exclusively for viol (1618–38); and a collection of anthems and consort songs. Service music and other anthems remain in manuscript.

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List of choral works

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• Dainty white pearl      (2 editions available)
• Dear, why do you joy?      (2 editions available)
• Farewell, false love      (2 editions available)
• Follow me, sweet love and soul's delight      (2 editions available)
• Hence, stars too dim of light      (3 editions available)
• How merrily we live     (5 editions available)
• I fall and then I rise aloft   (   Encore )
• I heard three virgins   2 editions available
• In dolorous complaining      (2 editions available)
• No haste but good      (3 editions available)
• Poor is the life   (  )
• Quick, quick, away, dispatch!      (3 editions available)
• Since tears could not obtain   (  )
• To hear men sing   (   Encore )
• What doth my pretty darling?   (   Encore )
• What heart such doubled force?   (   Encore )
• Why do you seek by flight?   (  )
• Why runs away my love?   (  )
• Why smilest thou, sweet jewel?      (3 editions available)

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Publications

• Published Madrigales to 3. 4. and 5. parts: apt for viols and voices (1604)
• The Second Set of Madrigales to 3. 4. and 5. parts (1606)
• The Third Set of Bookes (1610)
• The Fift Set of Bookes ... as apt for Vyols as Voyces (1618)
• The Fourth Set of Bookes (1619)
• The Sixt Set of Bookes (1624)
• The Seventh Set of Bookes (1638)

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