Rev. Richard Carleton (died 1638?), also spelled Carlton and Charlton, was an English poet and composer of madrigals.[1]
Life[]
Carleton. was possibly a member of the family of the same name who lived at Lynn in Norfolk. He was born in the latter part of the 16th century, and educated at Clare College, Cambridge, where he earned an A.B. in 1577. He subsequently took the degree of Bachelor of Music and was ordained. Soon afterwards he obtained an appointment at Norwich Cathedral.[1]
In 1601 he published a collection of 21 madrigals, on the title-page of which he styles himself 'Priest.' These compositions, which in the Latin preface he calls 'prima libamina facultatis meas,' are dedicated to Sir Thomas Farmer. Prefixed is a 'Preface to the Skillfull Musician,' dated Norwich, 28 March 1601. In the same year he contributed a madrigal to the collection entitled The Triumphs of Oriana.[1]
On 11 Oct. 1612 Carleton was presented by Thomas Thursby to the rectory of Bawsey and Glosthorp, near Lynn. The date of his death is unknown, but it probably took place in 1638, for though a locum tenens (Robert Powis) seems to have been appointed to the living in 1627, there was no other rector until 22 Aug. 1638, when Richard Peynes was presented.[1]
Writing[]
Sir John Harington included poetry by Carleton in the Arundel Manuscript.[2]
The only extant compositions of his, besides those mentioned above, are some instrumental pavans in the British Museum (Add. MS. 568).[1]
Publications[]
Songs[]
- Madrigals to Five Voyces. London: Morley, 1601.[3]
Anthologized[]
- The Arundel Harington Manuscript of Tudor Poetry (edited by Ruth Willard Hughey). Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1960.[4]
See also[]
References[]
Squire, William Barclay (1887) "Carleton, Richard" in Stephen, Leslie Dictionary of National Biography 9 London: Smith, Elder, p. 96 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Carleton,_Richard_(DNB00). Web, May 26, 2016.
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Squire, 96.
- ↑ Rev. Richard Carleton(1558 ca.-1638), English Poetry, 1579-1830, Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University. Web, May 18, 2016.
- ↑ Search results = madrigals au:Richard Carleton, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, May 18, 2016.
- ↑ Search results = Arundel Harington manuscript, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, May 18, 2016.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain, the Dictionary of National Biography (edited by Leslie Stephen). London: Smith, Elder, 1885-1900. Original article is at: Carleton, Richard