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          Whythorne had a passion for poetry, but it was a passion very much rooted in the here and now of day-to-day existence..

          Thomas Whythorne

          English composer

          Thomas Whythorne (1528–1595) was an Englishcomposer who wrote what some consider to be the earliest known surviving autobiography in English.

          Whythome published the earliest extant book of English madrigals.

        1. Story within Whythorne's autobiography, this time in the form of a romantic – or perhaps more accurately – a 'friendship' narrative.
        2. Whythorne had a passion for poetry, but it was a passion very much rooted in the here and now of day-to-day existence.
        3. Thomas Whythorne, a keen player of the gittern during his youth, and sometime pupil in a dancing school, commissioned a portrait of himself.
        4. In addition to its musical importance, Whythorne's autobiography reveals much about sixteenth-century social customs and habits.

          5. Early life and education

          Born in Somerset (Whythorne was a Somerset spelling of the surname "Whitehorn")[1] to a wealthy family, Whythorne was a chorister at Magdalen College, Oxford[2] and attended Magdalen College School.[3] On leaving the school he briefly attended Magdalen College itself, but left within a year to study under the writer and musician John Heywood.[4][5] He did not inherit enough to live a life of leisure however and so became a music tutor to various members of the gentry.

          Career as musician

          Chafing against his treatment by some employers as a mere servant (whom he considered below him due to his background and education), Whythorne searched for a patron to allow him to concentrate on composing.

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