born 1557/58, Norwich, Norfolk, Eng.
died October 1602, London
English composer, organist, and music theorist.
He was educated at Oxford and studied with First Booke of Ayres (1600), and for the treatise A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musick (1597). By editing and printing several anthologies of Italian music (often reworked), he was instrumental in bringing the Italian {{link=madrigal">madrigal to England. He also edited The Triumphes of Oriana (published 1603), the most significant collection of English madrigals.