Sheryngham

Sheryngham was an English composer active around the end of the fifteenth century.. Sheryngham is known by two works in an early Tudor manuscript of part songs known as the Fayrfax manuscript or Fayrfax Book (c. 1485-1500). The text of his four-voice carol "Ah, Gentle Jesu" has been tentatively identified as the work of poet John Lydgate, who died c. 1451; if this is correct, then Sheryngham's setting of this long poem was probably composed some time after Lydgate's death. Dr Charles Burney thought enough of Sheryngham's two-voice part song "My Woeful Heart" to include it in his General History of Music, published in 1789. Beyond that, nothing else about Sheryngham is known. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.