da: William Kidd

Reynolds made extracts in his commonplace book from Theophrastus, Plutarch, Seneca, Marcus Antonius, Ovid, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Aphra Behn and passages on art theory by Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, and André Félibien.

da: John William Strutt

da: William Somerset Maugham

da: William Morris

da: William af Ockham

da: William Pitt den ældre

da: William Butler Yeats

da: William Seward Burroughs

da: William Wordsworth

da: William Gladstone

da: William Congreve

da: William Golding

da: William Makepeace Thackeray

Some of the better-known composers of this time include Dufay, Josquin des Prez, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and William Byrd ; the glories of Renaissance polyphony were choral, sung by choirs of great skill and distinction all over Europe.

da: William Tecumseh Sherman

da: William Ramsay

In 1728, she rediscovered sets of sketches by Leonardo da Vinci and Hans Holbein that had been hidden in a drawer since the reign of William III.

da: William Riker

He had been preceded by numerous Christian missionaries to the East, such as William of Rubruck, Benedykt Polak, Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, and Andrew of Longjumeau.

da: William Pitt den yngre

da: William H. Seward

da: William Anders

These include the Franciscan explorers Giovanni da Pian del Carpine in 1245 and William of Rubruck in 1253.

da: Donald Byrd

da: Charlie Byrd

They have an ancestry extending back, however, at least to 1728, when William Byrd described the Lubberlanders he encountered in the back country of Virginia and North Carolina.

Naturally, Mr. Deller and the other singers in his troupe are most charming and elegant when they are squarely in their tradition and singing music by their countrymen: William Byrd, Thomas Morley and Thomas Tomkins.

Though Palestrina represents late Renaissance music well, others such as Orlande de Lassus ( a Franco-Flemish composer who also spent some of his early career in Italy ) and William Byrd were arguably more versatile.

Among the most famous composers who wrote for the harpsichord were the members of English virginal school of the late Renaissance, notably William Byrd ( ca.

* 1623 – William Byrd, English composer ( b. 1540 )

However, his conversion was not publicized, and being Catholic did not prevent some other important musicians ( such as William Byrd ) from having a court career in England.

* William Byrd

Serious composers who turned their hand to the round format include Thomas Arne, John Blow, William Byrd, Henry Purcell, and Louis Hardin.

Dissemination of chansons, motets, and masses throughout Europe coincided with the unification of polyphonic practice into the fluid style which culminated in the second half of the sixteenth century in the work of composers such as Palestrina, Lassus, and William Byrd.

A notable English Roman Catholic, possibly a convert, was composer William Byrd.

Music for consorts was very popular in England in Elizabethan times, with composers such as William Byrd and John Dowland, and, during the reign of King Charles I, John Jenkins and William Lawes.

** White supremacist John William King is found guilty of kidnapping and killing African American James Byrd Jr. by dragging him behind a truck for 2 miles ( 3 km ).

* July 4 – William Byrd, English composer ( b. 1543 )

** William Byrd

** William Byrd, English composer ( d. 1623 )

* August 26 – William Byrd II, prominent planter from Virginia ( b. 1674 )

* January 21 – * Queen Elizabeth I of England grants a monopoly on producing printed sheet music to Thomas Tallis and William Byrd

William Byrd

William Byrd (; 1540 or late 1539 – 4 July 1623, by the Julian calendar, 14 July 1623, by the Gregorian calendar ) was an English composer of the Renaissance.

William Byrd was born in London, the son of another Thomas Byrd about whom nothing further is known, and his wife, Margery.

Byrd also contributed eight keyboard pieces to Parthenia ( winter 1612 – 13 ), a collection of 21 keyboard pieces engraved by William Hole and containing music by Byrd, John Bull and Orlando Gibbons.