Misplaced Pages

Robert Cowper or Robert Cooper (c. 1465–1539/40) was an English composer. He studied music at the University of Cambridge and sang as a lay-clerk there in the Choir of King's College. He was later appointed master of the choristers of the household chapel of Lady Margaret Beaufort.

He composed both sacred and secular music, including masses, motets and madrigals. The Gyffard partbooks contain a four part setting of Hodie composed by Cowper with John Taverner and Thomas Tallis.

References

1. Fiona Kisby (1997). "A mirror of monarchy: Music and musicians in the household chapel of the Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII". Early Music History. 16: 203–234. doi:10.1017/S0261127900001728. S2CID 191989186.
2. John Harley (2015). Thomas Tallis. Routledge. ISBN 9781472428066.

Notes

• "Roger Bowers, 'Cowper , Robert (c.1465–1539/40)'". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2004.

External links

• Free scores by Robert Cowper at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)

This article about a British composer is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• English Renaissance composers
• Sacred music composers
• 16th-century English musicians
• 16th-century English composers
• English classical composers of church music
• English male classical composers
• British composer stubs