Thomas Ashewell [Ashwelle, Asshwell, Aswell]
(c.1478-after 1518)
English composer. A chorister at St George's, Windsor, in
1491-3 and singer a Tattershall College, Lincolnshire, in 1502-3, he was
master of the choristers at Lincoln Cathedral by 1508, and in 1513 became
cantor or master of the Lady Chapel choir at Durham cathedral. His church
music includes two fine festal masses in florid style in the Forrest-Heyther
Partbooks. His first MassJesu Christe is based on the short respond from
Prime in Easter week. The second, again in six parts and a very impressive
work, is Ave Maria, on an antiphon at Commemorations of the Virgin in
Advent. He was represented in the songbook printed in 1530, probably by
Wynkyn de Worde. A possible teacher of Taverner at Tattershall College.
Grove's dictionary of music and musicians, Volume 1 By John
Alexander Fuller-Maitland et al.
ASHWELL THOMAS
English composer of the first half of the 16th century. Morley names him in
his Plain and Easy Introduction 1597 among the practitioners in his list of
authors
One song by him 'She may be called' was printed in Wynkyn de Worde's
Song Book 1530 The following compositions exist in MS Two Masses a 6 Jhesu
Christe and Ave Maria are in the Oxford Music School Collection another
incomplete Mass God save
King Herry is in the University and St John's College Libraries Cambridge
Single parts of a Stabat Mater and of a Te Matrem are in the British Museum
Harl MS 1709
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