Mulliner, Thomas

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Mulliner, Thomas

Mulliner, Thomas, English music anthologist and composer who flourished in the mid 16th century. He was the compiler of the valuable anthology known as the Mulliner Book (ed. by D. Stevens as The Mulliner Book, Musica Britannica, I, London, 1951; 2nd ed., 1954), which contains both original and arranged sacred and secular works, covering the period from about 1530 to 1575.

Bibliography

D. Stevens, The Mulliner Book: A Commentary (London, 1952).

—Laura Kuhn/Dennis Mclntire

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