Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/B/Bennet, John

by John Weeks Moore

Bennet, John, one of the best English madrigalists, seems to have had a melody more phrased and chantante than most of his contemporaries. Besides his madrigals for four voices, published in 1599, and of which several are still noticed by the admirers of old music, he contributed largely to the compositions inserted in a work published by Thomas Ravenscroft, in 1614, entitled A briefe Discourse of the true but neglected Use of characterising the Degrees of Mensuralize Musicke," &c.