Damett

(Thomas?) Damett (?1389–1390 — between 15 July 1436 and 14 April 1437) was an English composer during the stylistic transitional from medieval to Renaissance music.

Identity and career

The illegitimate son of a gentleman, he was a commoner at Winchester College until 1406–7 and became rector of Stockton, Wiltshire, in 1413. His name appears occasionally in the Royal Household Chapel accounts between 1413 and 1430–31.^[1] He was also prebendary of Rugmere in St Paul's Cathedral 1418–1436, was appointed to the fifth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1431 and held the canonry until 1436.^[1][2]

Music

Nine works by him survive in the Old Hall Manuscript and may be autographs: six mass movements (including a Gloria-Credo pair based on a Square) and three motets (one isorhythmic).^[1]

Works

Editions

• Hughes, Andrew; Bent, Margaret, eds. (1969–1973). The Old Hall Manuscript. Corpus mensurabilis musicae 53. Cambridge: American Institute of Musicology. OCLC 80858118.
• Ramsbotham, Alexander, ed. (1933–1938). The Old Hall Manuscript. Vol. 3 volumes. Completed by H.B. Collins and Dom Anselm Hughes. Buckinghamshire: Plainsong and Medieval Music Society.

References

Citations

Sources

• Bent, Margaret (2001). "Damett". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.07123. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
• Strohm, Reinhard (2005). The Rise of European Music, 1380-1500. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-61934-9.

External links

• List of compositions by Damett at the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
• Works by Damett in the Medieval Music Database from La Trobe University