Clement Woodcock
Clement Woodcock (d. 1590)[1] was an English organist.
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Career
After some years as a lay clerk of King's College, Cambridge between 1562-3, Woodcock was a singer at Canterbury Cathedral before being appointed Organist of Chichester Cathedral from 1570. He was appointed Master of the Choristers in November 1571 and led a recruitment drive for new choristers. By April 1574, Woodcock was in Holy Orders. In 1580, he resigned the Mastership of the Choristers in favour of Christopher Paine; however, he returned to the post in the last year of his life.[2]
Compositions
Woodcock composed a total of five instrumental pieces of music, four of which are dated 1578, in Chichester. They are pioneer compositions in the style later cultivated by William Byrd and other Tudor and Jacobean composers. He wrote three settings of In Nomine,[3][4] one of which is found in the Dow Partbooks.
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| Preceded by
Christopher Paine
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Master of the Choristers of Chichester Cathedral 1589-1590 |
Succeeded by John Cowper |
| Preceded by
William Payne
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Master of the Choristers of Chichester Cathedral 1571-1580 |
Succeeded by Christopher Paine |
| Preceded by | Organist of Chichester Cathedral 1570-1589 |
Succeeded by ? |
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- ↑ Biographical Dictionary of the Organ | Clement Woodcock
- ↑ Organs and Organists of Chichester Cathedral
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- ↑ ChoralWiki profile of Woodcock
