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Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians Volume 2, 1927
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1He was the only son of the Rev. Russell Day, rector of Horstead, Norwich; was educated at Cheam and Eton, and in 1880 joined the 3rd Royal Lancashire Militia. In 1882 he was gazetted to the first battalion of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry, and soon afterwards was ordered to India, where he became profoundly learned in Oriental music, being instructed entirely by native musicians. The result of his studies was The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan, published in 1891. He drew up the very valuable catalogue of the musical instruments exhibited at the Military Exhibition in Chelsea in 1890 (published by Eyre & Spottiswoode). He took an active part in founding and promoting the cause of the short-lived Wind Instrument Chamber Music Society; he served on the English committee of the musical exhibition in Vienna (1892), and was invited to form one of a committee of advice for the Paris Exhibition of 1900. He was gazetted major in 1899. He was mortally wounded in the South African war, in the attack upon Cronje at Paardeberg, Feb. 18, 1900, while helping a wounded man. An interesting obituary notice, by the late A. J. Hipkins, appeared in Mus. T. Apr. 1900. His collection of Indian musical instruments (including a fine vina) and his Indian MSS. are now in the South Kensington Museum. M.
3DAY, JOHN (b. Dunwich, Suffolk, 1522; d. London, July 23, 1584—Q.-L.), one of the earliest of English musical typographers, began printing about 1547 in Holborn, a little above the Conduit. He afterwards dwelt 'over Aldersgate beneath Saint Martyns' (i.e. in the upper room over the gate itself), and subsequently had a shop in St. Paul's Churchyard. He used the motto 'Arise, for it is Day,' which was probably intended as a reference to the introduction of the reformed religion as well as a punning allusion to his own name. On Mar. 25, 1553, he obtained a licence to print A Catechism in English with an A B C thereunto annexed, and also the works of John Poynet, Bishop of Winchester, and Thomas Beacon, Professor of Divinity. He subsequently procured a patent to be granted to him and his son Richard for printing the Psalms, etc. He was the printer of Foxe's Acts and Monuments. In 1582 he was Master of the Stationers' Company. He died July 23, 1584. The musical works printed by Day were:
51560. 'Certaine notes set forth in foure and three parts to be song at the morning, Communion and evening prayer, very necessary for the Church of Christe to be frequented and used: & unto them added divers godly praiers & Psalmes in the like forme to the honor & praise of God.'
6Imprinted at London over Aldersgate beneath S. Martins by John Day, 1560. Cum gratia & privilegio Regie Majestatis.
7A medius partbook of this edition is in the British Museum (K.7.e 7), and a bassus partbook is in the Bodl. Lib., O. (Douce B 248). This was reprinted in 1565, with a fresh title-page containing an engraved portrait of the printer and his initials at the bottom, under the new title 'Morning and Evenyng prayer and Communion, set forthe in foure partes, to be song in Churches, both for men and children, wyth dyvers other godly praiers & Anthems, of sundry mens doynges. Imprinted . . .'
91560. 'Psalmes of David in Englishe Metre by Thomas Sternehold, and others . . . ' (see PSALTER).
101562. 'The whole booke of Psalms collected into Englysh Meter . . . ' (see PSALTER).
111563. 'The whole psalmes in foure partes . . . ' (see PSALTER).
121567 (or 8). 'The whole Psalter translated into English metre . . . ' (see PSALTER).
131579. 'The Psalms of David . . . ' (see PSALTER).
15W. H. H.; rev. J. M.
17DAZA (DAÇA), ESTEBAN (b. Valladolid, mid. 16th cent.), a Spanish lutenist who published in 1576 a book in tablature entitled:
19Libro de Musica en cifras para Vihuela, intitulado el Parnasso, en el qual se hallara toda diuersidad de Musica, assi Motetes, Sonetos, Villanescas, en lengua Castellana, y otras cosas, como Fantasias del Autor, hecho por Esteuan Daça, vezino de la muy insigne villa de Valladolid, . . .
20Impreso por Diego Fernandez de Cordoua, impressor de su Magestad. Año de M.D.LXXVI . . . en Valladolid. (Bibl. Nac., Madrid.)
22The book is of great interest, since it contains transcriptions for the lute of a number of Spanish madrigals and villancicos, the original voice-parts being found, in many cases, in other printed works and MSS. The following composers are represented:
24RODRIGO CEVALLOS
255 madrigals (4 v.), original parts in Medinaceli MSS. 13,230, and an alto partbook in the library of Sir Percy Wyndham, Petersfield. The words of one, 'Quan bienaventurado,' are taken from Garcilaso de la Vega (Eclogue IV.), one of the greatest of Spanish poets.
27FRANCISCO GUERRERO
282 madrigals (4 v.), originals in Medinaceli MS., and Guerrero's 'Canciones y villanescas espirituals' (Venice, 1589). The beautiful 'Prado verde y florido' is attributed to Navarro in the Medinaceli MS.
30JUAN NAVARRO
312 madrigals (4 v.), originals in Medinaceli MS.
33PEDRO ORDOÑEZ
342 madrigals (4 v.), original parts unknown.
36JUAN VASQUEZ
373 villancicos (2 for 4 v. and 1 for 5 v.), original parts in 'Recopilacion de sonetos y villancicos a quatro y a cinco de Iuan Vasquez' (Sevilla, 1560), in Medinaceli Library.
39VILLALAR
40Madrigal, 'Esclarecida Juana' (4 v.), printed in Guerrero's 'Villanescas,' in a parody a lo divino: 'Esclarecida Madre.'
42The collection also includes transcriptions of a number of anonymous villancicos for 3 and 4 voices, besides motets, and an unidentified setting of Garcilaso's well-known sonnet, 'Escrito está en mi alma vuestro gesto,' as a madrigal for 4 voices. There are also several fantasias on the Gregorian tones. Daza shows less feeling for the possibilities of the lute, or of the solo song, than his forerunners Luis Milan and Alonso de Mudarra. His 'Parnasso' is frankly a book of transcriptions of favourite music of his day. Examples are given by Morphy, 'Les Luthistes espagnols.' J. B. T.
44DEACON, HENRY COLLINS (b. London, 1822; d. there, Feb. 24, 1890), an eminent teacher of singing, studied the pianoforte under Cipriani Potter and singing under Mazzucato. Many of the most famous singers of the day passed through his hands, notably Sims Reeves, who studied his oratorio repertory with Deacon. A serious student of the art of singing in all its branches, Deacon contributed the majority of the articles thereon to the first edition of this Dictionary. Moreover, he gave much valued help to Sir Morell Mackenzie in the production of his book The Hygiene of the Vocal Organs.
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