Excerpt from The English Madrigal School: A Guide to Its Practical Use There can be little doubt that the English Madrigal writers of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean period constitute our finest School of national composition. This was the period during which, according to Thomas Morley himself, anyone unable to take part at sight in a Madrigal or in a consort of viols was considered to fall below the standard of a gentlemanly education. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.