A survey of the life and work of Henry VIII 's
Master of the Chapel Royal
Written and produced by Douglas Cleverdon
The Deller Consort
The Schola Polyphonica
Director, Henry Washington and The London Consort of Viols
Narrator, James McKechnie with Arthur Bush. Frank Duncan and Norman Shelley
Music transcribed and edited by Frank Harrison
The versatility 01 musicans attached to the court of Henry VIII is well illusiraled in the character of William Cornyshe. Has music was equally well known in both church and theatre, and copes of his motets even penetrated to Scotland. As poet and dramatist Cornyshe was capabe though at times ind screet: one sharply pointed satire caused h:s temporary anprisonment D.S.