Robert Wylkynson (sometimes Wilkinson) (ca. 1450 –

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after 1515) was one of the composers of the

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. Wylkynson became parish clerk of Eton in 1496, then in 1500 he was promoted to ''Informator'' - the master of the choristers. Only four works survive: * 2x Salve Regina * Jesus autem transiens/Credo in Deum à 13 * motet ''O virgo prudentissima'' (fragmentary) But these works show Wylkynson to have been "an extremely ambitious composer and a more than competent one."Hugh Benham Latin church music in England, c. 1460–1575 1977 Page 95

Recordings

*Salve Regina Eton Choirbook Vol. I The Sixteen, dir.

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*Jesus autem transiens/Credo in Deum à 13. Eton Choirbook Vol. III The Sixteen, dir.

*Jesus autem transiens/Credo in Deum à 13. on ''À 40 Voix''. Huelgas Ensemble, dir. Paul Van Nevel. HMC 801954 *Jesus autem transiens/Credo in Deum à 13. Eton Choirbook

Tonus Peregrinus , the wandering tone, or the ninth tone, is a reciting tone in Gregorian chant. The chant example here is not identified as the ''tonus peregrinus'' in the ''Liber usualis'' (see LU, pp. 760–761), although it is in Aeolian mode. For the ' ...

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