John Danyel or John Daniel (Baptized 6 November 1564 – c. 1626) was an English

lute A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lute" can ref ...

player and songwriter. He was born in

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, and was the younger brother of poet

Samuel Daniel Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) was an English poet, playwright and historian in the late- Elizabethan and early- Jacobean eras. He was an innovator in a wide range of literary genres. His best-known works are the sonnet cycle ''Delia'', the epi ...

. His surviving works include "Coy Daphne Fled", about the nymph

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and her fate, and "Like as the lute delights". Sample lyrics from "Like as the lute delights": :''Like as the lute delights, or else dislikes,'' :''As is his art that plays upon the same;'' :''So sounds my muse, according as she strikes'' :''On my heart strings, high-tuned unto her fame.'' Daniel held some offices at court, and was the author of ''Songs for the

Lute A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lute" can ref ...

Viol The viol (), viola da gamba (), or informally gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted, and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension on the strings can be increased or decreased to adjust the pitc ...

and Voice'' (1606).

Sources

* Sadie, S. (ed.) (1980) ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians'', ol. # 5

References

External links

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Music Collection
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which contains early copies/examples of Danyel's compositions English classical musicians People from Somerset 16th-century English composers 17th-century English composers 1560s births 1620s deaths English lutenists English male composers 17th-century male musicians {{UK-classical-musician-stub