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Osbert Parsley (1510/1511–1585) was an English Renaissance composer and chorister who wrote mainly church music for both the Latin and English rites, as well as instrumental music. He was a boy chorister at Norwich Cathedral, where he spent his musical career. He was first mentioned as a lay clerk, was appointed a "singing man" around 1534, and was probably the cathedral's unofficial organist for half a century. His works include the elegant polyphonic Conserva me, domine, two Morning Services, an Evening Service, and the five-part Lamentations. His Latin settings are considered to be more fluent and attractive than those to be sung in English. His instrumental music, nearly all for viols, included six consort pieces. Some of his incomplete instrumental music has survived. He died in Norwich in 1585 and was buried in Norwich Cathedral, where he has a commemorative plaque (pictured). Compositions that have been recorded include his Lamentations and Spes Nostra. (Full article...)

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Osbert Parsley

Photograph of Parsley's memorial at Norwich

The commemorative plaque to Parsley in Norwich Cathedral

Born

1510/1511

Died

1585 (aged 74–75)

Norwich, England

Occupations

Composer"singing man" (chorister)

Era

Renaissance

Parsley wrote mainly church music for both the Latin and English rites, as well as instrumental music. His Latin settings are considered to be more fluent and attractive-sounding than those he wrote to be sung in English. His longest composition, Conserva me, domine, was in a graceful polyphonic style. Parsley's other liturgical works include two Morning Services, an Evening Service, and the five-part Lamentations (notable for the difficulty in singing the top notes of the highest part). His instrumental music, nearly all for viols, including six consort pieces, was written in a style that combines both his Latin and English vocal styles. Some of his incomplete instrumental music has survived.

Parsley died in Norwich in 1585 and was buried in Norwich Cathedral. His commemorative plaque, a mark of the respect in which he was held by those who knew him, was a unique honour for a chorister at the cathedral. The plaque is inscribed with a poem praising his character and musicianship. Parsley's music is occasionally heard in church services and concerts. Compositions that have been recorded include his Lamentations and Spes Nostra.

Life and musical career

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Coloured map of Norwich, 1581

Norwich, as depicted in the Civitates Orbis Terrarum (1581)

Osbert Parsley was born in 1510 or 1511;[note 2] the identity of his parents and place of birth are unknown.[5] Like many of his contemporary English composers, he began his musical career as a choirboy.[6] During the time Parsley was a chorister, Edmund Inglott and his son William Inglott were in turn Master of the Choristers; the works written by William are found in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.[7]

He became a "singing man" c.1534, a post he retained for 50 years.[8] The historian Noel Boston has conjectured that Parsley was either hired by the cathedral monks to assist them as a layman chorister, or was possibly a novice monk before his career as a monk was stopped short by the English Reformation, and he then was employed as a singing man.[9] Parsley was first listed in Norwich Cathedral's extant accounts for 1538–1540, where he was named as a lay clerk, and he continued to be mentioned in the cathedral's records throughout his life.[5][note 3] It is likely that he acted as the cathedral's unofficial organist from 1535 until his death in 1585.[7]

In 1558 Parsley was married to one Rose and bought a house and premises in the parish of St Saviour's Church, Norwich, from John Hering and his wife, Helen. Parsley owned the house until 1583.[5] Details of Parsley's life were first published in Henry Davey's History of English Music, first published in 1895, when he was described as a "lesser composer" from Norwich Cathedral whose works existed in manuscript form.[3] From Parsley's will it is known that there were seven surviving children from the marriage: Henry, Edmund, John, Joan, Elizabeth, Dorothy, and Anne.[11]

Composers during the Tudor period were honoured by being awarded an academic degree from either Oxford or Cambridge, or by becoming a member of the Chapel Royal—Parsley received neither of these highly-prized honours.[12]

Later life (1570s and 1580s)

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Photograph of interior of Norwich Cathedral

The quire in Norwich Cathedral, where Parsley was a chorister for over 50 years

By the start of the 1570s, Parsley was being paid £12 a year, and the five other men in the cathedral choir were paid either £10 or £8, equivalent to the pay given to an unskilled construction worker. A decade later, the cathedral choirmaster, responsible for both the men's and boys' choirs, was being paid £12.[13] The composer Thomas Morley, master of the choirboys from 1583, had a salary not much more than those of the singing men.[14]

In 1578, Elizabeth I and her court came to Norwich as part of a royal progress, and the city was expected to provide accommodation, banquets and entertainment. Then the second city in England after London, Norwich was one of the few cities in the kingdom with such sufficient numbers of skilled musicians, but even so it had to resort to using viol, trumpet and cornett players from Elizabeth's entourage.[15] Elizabeth, in the company of her courtiers, the most prominent of Norwich's citizens, and the clergy of the cathedral, heard a Te Deum by Parsley sung during the first evening of her visit,[2] with the choir being supported by the city's waits.[15] Parsley was paid 6+1⁄2 shillings for the songs he had written and sang during the queen's visit.[2] His music was also performed before Elizabeth when she returned to Norwich in 1597.[16] None of his compositions for her visits to Norwich have survived.[15]

Death and commemoration

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In 1580, Parsley's name appeared at the top of the list of lay clerks in the Norwich Cathedral audit book.[17] His will, made on 9 December 1584, was proved by his widow on 6 April of the following year. He died in Norwich in 1585, aged 71, and was buried in the cathedral where he had worked throughout most of his life. He left bequests valued at about £75.[note 4][5] A friend of four Bishops of Norwich—Richard Nykke, Thomas Thirlby, John Parkhurst and Edmund Freke[7]—Parsley was also well respected by his contemporaries for his musical ability and his personal character. His fellow lay singing men honoured him by commissioning a commemorative plaque—uniquely for a lay clerk in an English cathedral[19]—in the north aisle.[5][20]

The plaque to Parsley, which once had indecipherable text, was restored in 1930 as a memorial to the composer and organist Arthur Mann.[19][21][note 5] It was unveiled during an evensong service on 10 July 1930, with music by Parsley and Mann sung by the choirs of King's College, Cambridge, Ely Cathedral, and Norwich Cathedral.[19][21] The text of the memorial reads:[23]

Musicae Scientissimo

Ei quondam Consociati

Musici posuerunt Anno 1585

Here lies the man whose Name in Spight of Death,

Renowned lives by Blast of Golden Fame:

Whose Harmony survives his vital Breath.

Whose Skill no Pride did spot whose Life no Blame.

Whose low Estate was blest with quiet Mind:

As our sweet Cords with Discords mixed be:

Whose life in Seventy and Four Years entwin'd,

As falleth mellowed Apples from the Tree.

Whose Deeds were Rules whose Words were Verity:

Who here a Singing-man did spend his Days.

Full Fifty Years in our Church Melody

His Memory shines bright whom thus we praise.

Composing career

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manuscript page from a composition by Parsley

The treble line of "Parsley's Clock" (BM Add. MSS 30480, British Library)

English composers of the late 15th century and early 16th century set a limited number of types of sacred music, each with a clear place in the liturgy.[24] Until the Reformation of 1534, when Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church, English composers based their works on the Sarum rite, abolished in 1547.[25] During the decades following the Reformation, the lives of English church musicians changed according to the policies of the reigning monarch. Henry allowed church music in England to continue to be written in a florid style, and use Latin texts, but during the reign of his son and successor, Edward VI, highly polyphonic music was no longer permitted, and the authorities destroyed church organs and music, and abolished choral foundations. These changes were never completely reverted by Edward's successor Mary during her brief reign; their half-sister Elizabeth, who succeeded Mary in 1558, confirmed or reinstated some of Edward's work.[26]

Parsley's compositional career spanned the reigns of all four monarchs. He wrote church music for both the Latin and English rites.[23] His Anglican church music for the Daily Office included a morning service, involving the Benedictus canticle and the Te Deum, and an evening service that involved the singing of two canticles, the Magnificat and the Nunc dimittis.[27]

The musicologist Howard Brown noted that Parsley belonged to a group of outstanding composers from the middle period of the 16th century—William Mundy, Robert Parsons, John Sheppard, Christopher Tye, Thomas Tallis, and Robert White—who together produced a body of high quality music.[28]

According to the scholar John Morehen, Parsley was less at ease when working with English texts, a trait Morehen finds Parsley had in common with similar Reformation composers.[23] His Latin music is fluent and attractive, with extended phrases that become increasingly melismatic as they progress. The parts in Latin are characteristically independent in a way that was typical of sacred polyphony in England before the Reformation.[29] The expressive psalm Conserva me, domine has an elegant polyphonic style.[5] The technique shown in his English church music is less assured than his compositions for the Latin rite.[29] His five-part Lamentations, which differs from settings by his contemporaries Tallis and White in that a treble line (notable for the difficulty in singing the highest notes of the part) is maintained throughout, was probably intended for domestic devotional use.[7] During the 1920s, the musicologist and composer W. H. Grattan Flood described Parsley's Lamentations as being "of particular interest".[7] One piece, a well-crafted three-part canonic setting of the Salvator Mundi, was printed by Morley in 1597. Morley described Parsley's arrangement of this Gregorian hymn as a model of its kind,[1] and alluded to him as "the most learned musician".[7]

Some of Parsley's instrumental music, nearly all for viols, survives, including six consort pieces;[30] both his Latin and English vocal styles can be found in his instrumental style.[29] The composition known as "Parsley's Clock" is similar to both Charles Butler's "Dial Song", and "What strikes the clocke?" by the English choirmaster and composer Edward Gibbons and a second anonymous piece, which were built around a line that counts the hours.[31]

Peter Phillips, writing in The Musical Times, in commending Conserva me, domine, noted that "Parsley can be remembered as one of those men who just once conjured up a masterpiece, as it seems to us now, from nowhere."[32]

Compositions

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"Parsley's Clock" (length 1 minute 34 seconds, transcribed for a quintet of recorders)

Parsley's surviving works consist mainly of church music from several locales.[29] His choral works set to Latin texts include Conserva me, domine, his most substantial work;[33] and the Lamentations;[34][23] those set to texts in English, written after the Dissolution, are his two Morning Services, each consisting of a Benedictus canticle and a Te Deum;[5][35] an Evening Service previously attributed to Tye;[36] and the anthem "This is the Day the Lord has made".[34][23] Other compositions known to have been written by Parsley include Spes nostra, a motet for five viols;[37] five In Nomine; "O praise the Lord all ye heathen", a tenor part recently found in a prayer book; a hymn Salvator mundi domine; a Service in C major; Super septem planetarum and the work known as "Parsley's Clock".[34] Several examples of incomplete instrumental music have also survived.[30]

Of the four of the great Lamentations of the Tudor period for Holy Week date from the 1560s, two were composed by Tallis, and one each by William Byrd and Parsley. Earlier Lent services avoided polyphony, which was regarded as lacking in solemnity.[38] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Parsley's Lamentations as his most famous work.[5]

Existing manuscripts

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Key

BL—British Library, London; BodL—Bodleian Library, Oxford; ERO—Essex Record Office, Chelmsford; PC—Peterhouse, Cambridge; QC—Queens' College, Cambridge; RCM—Royal College of Music; JO—Private collection of David McGhie, London; Private Library of J. A. Owens, Davis, California; f.—folio, r,v—recto and verso; vv—voices.

Music for voices

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Composition Description Manuscript name Location

Conserva me, domine Complete work (a setting of Psalm 16, written as a motet for five voices) Sadler Partbooks: MSS Mus. e.1–5[34] BodL

Opening duo Add MS 29246 (Paston MS) (f. 8v)[34][39] BL

Bass line only MS Tenbury 1464[34] BodL

Petre MS D/DP Z6/1[34] ERO

Three parts only MS Tenbury 342[34] BodL

MS 2035[34] RCM

Lamentations Setting (Mem: Cui comparabo) for five voices, complete work Mus. e. 1–5 (Sadler Partbooks)[40] BodL

Evening Service Liturgical work written in G minor.[36] containing a Magnificat and a Nunc dimittis MSS 34, 36, 37, 42, 44[41][35] PC

Two Morning Services Liturgical works, each containing a Benedictus and Te Deum Add MSS 30480–30483[42][43][44][45] BL

MS 35–37, 42–45 (Peterhouse Partbooks)[34] PC

Multiplicati A setting of "Their sorrows shall be multiplied", part of Psalm 16 (fragment) MS 1737[7] RCM

"O praise the Lord all ye heathen" Half a page of music from a personal copy of the tenor part of one or more partbooks Old Library G.4.17[46] QC

"This is the day the Lord has made" Anthem for four voices, based on a text from Psalm 118 MSS 35–37, 42–44 (Peterhouse Partbooks: Latter Caroline Set)[47] PC[note 6]

Instrumental music

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Complete works

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Composition Description Manuscript name Location

In Nomine Piece for four players, probably viols[30] MS Mus. Sch. d. 212;[34] MSS Mus. Sch. d. 213–216[30] BodL

In Nomine Piece for four players, probably viols[30]

In Nomine Piece for five players, probably viols[30]

"Parsley's Clock" Piece for five players Add MSS 30480–30484 (Hamond Partbooks, written as "Perslis clo[c]ke")[48][42][43][44][45][49] BL

The song upon the dial MS Tenbury 1464[34] BodL

Salvador mundi domine Hymn in three parts, probably for viols. Printed in Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke by Thomas Morley (1597)[30][50] – JO

Spes nostra Motet for five viols Add MS 31390[37] BL

Incomplete works

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Composition Description Manuscript name Location

Benedicum domino A setting of "I will bless the Lord", part of Psalm 16, arranged for lute Add MS 29246[51] BL

Conserva me. domine (a setting of Psalm 16) Arranged for three lutes[51] Add MS 29246[51] BL

In Nomine (of 5 parts upon 5 minims)[note 7] A single surviving part (bassus) of a piece for five players, probably for viols[30] MS Tenbury 1464[34] BodL

In Nomine (Jesu) A single surviving part (bassus) of music in five parts of a piece for five players, probably for viols[30] MS Tenbury 1464[34] BodL

Multiplicati (A setting of "Their sorrows shall be multiplied", part of Psalm 16) Incomplete, arranged for three lutes[51] Add MS 29246[51] BL

MS 2035[34] RCM

"Parsley's Clock" A single surviving part from a Discantus partbook, which once would have been one of six volumes McGhie manuscript[48] DM

"Super septem planetarium" An undesignated single part for a consort piece[30] MS Tenbury 1464[34] BodL

Recordings and performances

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CD recordings of some of Parsley's compositions have been made, and his music continues to be heard in church services and concerts.[52][53][54]

Year Album Piece Publisher

1992 Morley, Parsley and Inglott Conserva me, domine;

Lamentations Priory Records[55]

2005 Musik der Tudor – Zeit Messen und Motetten Lamentations Sony BMG Music Entertainment[56]

2009 The Lamentations of Jeremiah Lamentations Delphian[57]

2014 Serenissima: Music from Renaissance Europe In Nomine Delphian[58]

2015 As Our Sweets Cords with Discords Mixed Be In Nomine;

"Parsley's Clock" Resonus Classics[59]

2017 Cosmography of Polyphony: A Journey Through Renaissance Music with 12 Recorders Spes Nostra Pan Classics[60]

2018 Æternum: Music of the Elizabethan Avant Garde from Add. MS 31390 Spes Nostra Olde Focus Recordings[61]

Notes

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Variations on Parsley's name include Persley, Parslove and Persleye.[1][2][3]

The year of Parsley's birth has been calculated from his age and the year at the time of his death.[4]

An Elizabethan singing man belonged to a respected occupation. Ernest Brennecke, professor of English at the University of Columbia, wrote that the term singing man was "specifically applied to professional musicians who performed the bass, tenor, and counter-tenor parts in the royal, cathedral, and university choirs."[10]

A Tudor pound (£1) was worth approximately £200 in 2017, so in modern terms, Parsley's bequests amounted to over £15,300.[18]

Mann, who was organist at King's College, Cambridge for over 50 years, had been a boy chorister at Norwich Cathedral.[22]

Manuscripts of This is the Day can also be found at the Bodleian Library and at the New York Public Library, according to Grove Music Online.[23]

There is a Parsley In Nomine in the British Library manuscript BM 32377, which is a discantus partbook, linked with one of the MS. Tenbury 1464 In Nomines.[34]

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