an easy temper, superior in his profession, well accepted by all, knew no want, saw himself outrun by the world, and having lived a good Christian, died in peace. Jenkins is buried in the nave of St. Peter's Church, Kimberley, Norfolk, with this inscription: Under this Stone Rare Jenkins lie The Master of the Musick Art Whom from the Earth the God on High Called up to Him to bear his part. Aged eighty six October twenty seven In anno seventy eight he went to Heaven. Musical style Jenkins was a long-active and prolific composer whose many years of life, spanning the time from William Byrd to Henry Purcell, witnessed great changes in English music. He is noted for developing the viol consort fantasia, being influenced in the 1630s by an earlier generation of English composers including Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger, Thomas Lupo, John Coprario and Orlando Gibbons. Jenkins composed numerous 4, 5, and 6 part fantasias for viol consort, almans, courants and pavanes, and he breathed new life into the antiquated form of the In Nomine. He was less experimental than his friend William Lawes; indeed, Jenkins's music was more conservative than that of many of his contemporaries. It is characterised by a sensuous lyricism, highly skilled craftsmanship, and an original usage of tonality and counterpoint. The musicologist Wilfrid Mellers claimed that J. S. Bach's Orchestral Suites No. 3 and No. 4 in D major (BWV 1068–69) recalled the sensibility of the physician-philosopher Sir Thomas Browne; however, the melancholic pavans, meditative fantasias and vigorous allemands of Jenkins are closer in era, antique style and temperament, to his Norfolk contemporary than Bach. Jenkins may even have socially met or performed in the presence of Browne while employed in his retirement years by Sir Philip Wodehouse of Kimberley as correspondence between Browne and Wodehouse survives. References Scholes, Percy (1995). Oxford Companion to Music (10th edn.). OUP. Discography Four-Part Consort Music Fretwork. Signum SIGCD 528 Five-Part Consorts Phantasm. Avie 2007 Six-Part Consorts Phantasm. Avie 2008 Fantazia Ensemble Jérôme Hantaï. Naive-Astrée E 8895. 2004 Fantasias Les Voix Humaines violes de gambe. Atma ACD2 2205. 2001 The Mirrour and Wonder of his Age: John Jenkins Consort Music Fretwork. Virgin 7243 5 45230 2 1. 1996 All in a Garden Green: Pavan, Newarke Seidge, Four-part ayres, Fantasia-suite Rose Consort of Viols. Naxos 8.550687. 1993 Consort Music for Viols in Six Parts Hespèrion XX. Astrée E