Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: L: Leighton, William, Sir

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Please submit sites dealing with the life or music of William Leighton, including biographies, discographies, analyses of compositions, or bibliographies.

A member of the landed gentry, English composer and poet Sir William Leighton (c. 1560/65-c. 1617/20) compiled eight consort and partsongs of his own with those of Bull, Byrd, Gibbons, and others into The Teares and Lamentations of a Sorrowful Soule in 1614, while in prison for debt.

Tears and Lamentations of a Sorrowful Soul

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The Tears and Lamentations of a Sorrowful Soul, Sir Wm. Leighton's greatest single contribution, was compiled from his own and others' works while he was imprisoned for debt in 1614.

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