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Choral evensong will be sung by Schola Epiphaniensis with music by Thomas Weelkes and Orlando Gibbons.

“Draw on Sweet Night” promises an evening of madrigals, anthems and catches — a type of round — by composers including Thomas Tomkins, Thomas Weelkes and Henry Purcell.

England at this time is filled with music; and by the end of the sixteenth century the whole land is a-warble with the madrigals and part-compositions of Weelkes, Wilbye, John Milton, Sr., and the famous Dr. John Bull, together with those of Tye, Tallis, Morley, Orlando Gibbons, and hundreds more.

There is a somewhat brief version of this song in the collection of Madrigals, etc., by Thomas Weelkes 1597, this person being the composer of the music, but not necessarily the author of the words.

Some rare sets of madrigals have been purchased, specially, in 1856, those of Morley, Watson, Weelkes, Wilbye, and Yonge, for £24 14s. 6d.;