Shepherd, John
Shepherd, John
Composer. Born in England c.1512; died there c.1563. A chorister under Thomas Mulliner at Saint Paul’s, he became in 1542 choir-master and organist at Magdalen College, Oxford, and in 1549 gained a fellowship. From 1553 to 1558 he belonged to Mary Tudor’s Chapel Royal. The Music School, Oxford, has preserved in manuscripts many of his religious compositions. Notable selections are four masses, several alleluias, and ten motets.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Shepherd, John
Musical composer, born about 1512; died about 1563; one of the great English musicians who rank with Tallis, Whyte, Taverner Farrant, Edwars, and Byrd. He was educated at St. Paul’s music-school under Thomas Mulliner, and was appointed organist and master of the choristers of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1542, which position he held, with a short intermission, till 1547. His attention was not wholly given to music, at this date, for he obtained a fellowship in Magdalen College in 1549, retaining it for two years. On 21 April, 1554, he petitioned as a student of music for twenty years the University of Oxford for the Degree of Mus.D., and he was one of Queen Mary’s Chapel Royal from 1553 to 1558. Among the New Year’s gifts to Queen Mary, on 1 January, 1557, there is an entry in the Chapel Royal books that “Shepherd of the Chapel gave three Rolls of Songs”. He was certainly alive in 1562, but there is no record of him after that date, from which it is concluded that he died, or resigned, in 1563. There exist numerous compositions printed as well as manuscripts testifying to Shepherd’s undoubted powers. His “Esurientes” for five voices, while The Royal College of Music, London, has four of his Latin motets. The Music School, Oxford, possesses much of his church music, including a delightful Magnifcat. Hawkins has reprinted two of his pieces, and Morley names him among the distinguished musicians of the sixteenth century.
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BURNEY, General History of Music (London, 1776-89); MORLEY, Introd. To Practicall Musicke (London, 1597); WALKER, Hist. Of Music in England (Oxford, 1907); GROVE, Diet. Of Music and Musicians (London, 1904-10).
W.H. GRATTAN-FLOOD Transcribed by Maria de Medina Dedicated to Teresita Guevara
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIIICopyright © 1912 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, February 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, D.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York
Fuente: Catholic Encyclopedia
Shepherd, John
a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Pennsylvania Nov. 7 1789. He was licensed to preach in Illinois about 1823, and received on trial into the Illinois Conference in 1836. His ministerial labor lasted twenty-four years; and in 1860 the Southern Illinois Conference granted him a superannuated relation. He died about twenty days after, in November, 1860. He as a faithful minister, remarkable for his punctuality, and greatly beloved. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1861, p. 217.