Sir William Leighton
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Sir William Leighton was an Elizabethan composer and editor who published The Teares and Lamentatacions of a Sorrowfull Soule (1614) which includes 55 pieces by 21 composers, (among them Byrd, Dowland and John Bull), including 8 by himself. There is a modern edition published by Stainer and Bell and a modern facsimile. There have been several radio broadcasts but no commercial recording.
The book is historically important because it has parts for an instrumental accompaniment of broken consort and introduces the term "consort song".
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