Richard Goodson (c.1655-1718)
- Ode 'Ormond's Glory, Marlborough's Arms'
Performers: New Chamber Opera Ensemble; Gary Cooper (conductor)
Further info: Music from ceremonial Oxford
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English organist, composer and music copyist. His father was Richard
Goodson, butler of New Inn Hall and innkeeper of the Fleur-de-Lys,
Oxford. Goodson sang in the choir at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1667 to
early 1681. On 19 July 1682 he succeeded Edward Lowe as Heather
Professor of Music at the university and by 1683 had been appointed
organist of New College, resigning in 1692 to become organist of Christ
Church. His will, made in 1714, suggests that he was then in poor
health: according to Hearne he relinquished his duties to his son
Richard Goodson (1688-1741) some time before his death. Goodson
published three songs in Musica Oxoniensis, one, with flute obbligato,
written on a three-bar chromatic ground bass. His act songs and other
occasional works are broadly modelled on the Restoration court ode but
approach neither the scale nor the sophistication of contemporary odes
by London composers, and, apart from the Morning Service in C, none of
his music became widely known outside Oxford. His activity as a copyist
nevertheless suggests that he was a capable and energetic successor to
Lowe: manuscripts in his hand include a score of Blow’s Venus and
Adonis, music by Coprario and instrumental movements by Lully, a
parchment roll listing the Music School collection in 1682, also appears
to be in Goodson’s handwriting.
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