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Robert Fayrfax
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| Robert Fayrfax enjoyed royal favour under Henry VIII as a gentleman of the Chapel Royal. He was one of the most improtant English composers of his generation and has had the posthumous advantage that a number of his works have survived.
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| Fayrfax is in particular associated wth the cyclic Mass, settings of the Mass in which related material appears in each section, generally based on a plainsong tenor. His settings of the Magnificat are of alternate verses, to be interspersed, according to common practice, by verses sung to plainchant. Fayrfax wrote, too, a number of part-songs, of which some seven survive.
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