Composing career The treble line of “Parsley’s Clock” (BM Add. MSS 30480, British Library) English composers of the late 15th century and early 16th century set a limited number of types of sacred music, each with a clear place in the liturgy.[24] Until the Reformation of 1534, when Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church, English composers based their works on the Sarum rite, abolished in […]
