ABSTRACT
Orlando Gibbons left England only once during his short life, and even this journey is not entirely certain. It is bound up with a significant moment in European history, the marriage of Princess Elizabeth Stuart, the only daughter of King James I, to Duke Frederick V the Elector Palatine from Heidelberg. One of the musicians recorded amongst the English contingent is 'Gibbons', in all likelihood the composer, Orlando. Kraków manuscript (Kr), ranks as one of the most important sources for south-Netherlands keyboard music and is the principal source for Peeter Cornet's music. Bull's 'continental' Galliard d7 was itself emulated by both Orlando Gibbons and Heinrich Scheidemann, both of them in a galliard in the same mode. The dating of the main thrust of Gibbons's keyboard music before 1613 would help to explain the stylistic gap looming between the larger pieces in the virginalist tradition on the one hand and the smaller, more modern almains, corantos and preludes on the other.
