Ravenscroft, THOMAS (1592-1640), musical composer and author of Melismata (1611), and of a collection of psalm-tunes for four voices, The Whole Book of Psalms (1621) by various composers. Some of the tunes, such as St Davids, Canterbury, Bangor, and many others, which have since become popular, are by Ravenscroft himself.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 591
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