Thomas Tomkins  (1572-1656)
Last updated: 05.09.23
According to The Oxford Companion to Music, Thomas Tomkins was born in St David's, Pembrokeshire and died in Martin Hussingtree, Worcestershire. His father (also Thomas) was Precentor of Gloucester Cathedral, and his brother (also Thomas - which is confusing) was a lay clerk of that cathedral. He himself was organist of the Chapel Royal, London, and, for half a century, of Worcester cathedral - until the discontinuing of organ and choir music with the coming into power of the Puritans deprived him of his position. He wrote instrumental music, church music, and, especially, wonderful madrigals, which are much relished today by lovers of the superb musical art of the late 16th- and early 17th-centuries.
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5 Pavans, 2 Galliards (D/A/T/B)smp_logo_88_white.gif
ISBN 3702428534.
Publisher: Universal Edition (UE014001)
Fantasy (D/A/T/B)smp_logo_88_white.gif
Performance Score. 4 pages.
This edition: ED 11598.
Arr./Editor: Frank Dawes
Publisher: Schott & Co. Ltd. (49014669)
Sure there be no god of love (T/T/B)smp_unav15.gif
Score.
Publisher: Loux Music Publishing Co. (LMP0005)
2 Pavans (Trumpet/Trumpet/T/T/B)smp_unav15.gif
Publisher: London Pro Musica (EMLV170)
Fantasy (D/A/T/B)smp_unav15.gif
Score and Parts.
Publisher: Schott & Co. Ltd. (ST11598)
O Let Me Live For True Love (D(A)/A(T)/T/B)smp_unav15.gif
Score and Parts.
Publisher: London Pro Musica (LPM0547)
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Score and Parts.
Publisher: Hawthorns Music (HARA154)
2 Pavans (D/A/T/T/B)smp_unav15.gif
5 Scores.
Publisher: London Pro Musica (EML0170)
Adieu, Ye City - Prisoning Towers (D/D/A/T/B)smp_unav15.gif
Score and Parts.
 Publisher: Polyphonic Publications (PP00101)
See, See The Shepherd's Queen (D/D/A/T/B)smp_unav15.gif
Score and Parts.
Publisher: Polyphonic Publications (PP00135)
Vier Pavanen für fünf Stimmen (D/A/T/T/B)smp_unav15.gif
Arr./Editor: Mönkemeyer
Publisher: Moeck Verlag (MK00422.3)
Music Divine (D/D/A/T/T/B)smp_unav15.gif
Score and Parts.
Publisher: Polyphonic Publications (PP00131)
When I Observe (serious; great variety of texture) (D/D/A/S/A/T/B)smp_unav15.gif
Score and Parts.
Publisher: London Pro Musica (LPM0542)
O Praise The Lord (D/D/A/A/A/T/T/T/B/B/B)smp_unav15.gif
Score and Parts.
Publisher: Tomus Publications (TM00106)