be corrected today based on stylistic grounds. One of the most unusual collections of music from the period is his book of 120 canons, an astonishing display of contrapuntal skill worthy of Ockeghem or J.S. Bach. Of the 120 canons, 116 are based on the Miserere. Techniques employed to transform the simple theme include diminution, augmentation, retrograde and mixed time signatures. Some of his music in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is of a lighter character and uses whimsical titles: "A Battle and No Battle," "Bonny Peg of Ramsey," "The King's Hunt," and "Bull's Good-Night." He is sometimes credited with the composition of "God Save the King", the national and/or royal anthem of a number of Commonwealth realms, their territories, and the Crown Dependencies. See also List of Gresham Professors of Music Notes References and further reading Susi Jeans, "John Bull". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vols. London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. The Concise Edition of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 8th ed. Revised by Nicolas Slonimsky. New York: Schirmer Books, 1993. Manfred Bukofzer, Music in the Baroque Era. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1947. Leigh Henry, Dr John Bull: 1562–1628. [London]: Herbert Joseph Ltd, in association with the Globe-Mermaid Association, 1937. Reprinted, Da Capo Press Music Reprint Series. New York: Da Capo Press, 1968. Walker Cunningham, The Keyboard Music of John Bull. Studies in Musicology 71. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1984. John Bull: Keyboard Music. Edited by John Steele & Francis Cameron, with additional material by Thurston Dart. Stainer & Bell, London 1967. 2 vols. Pieter Dirksen, "Towards a canon of the keyboard music of John Bull", in: Aspects of Early English Keyboard Music to c.1630, ed. David J. Smith (Ashgate Historical Keyboard Series, Oxon/New York: Routledge, 2019), S. 184–206. External links English classical composers English Baroque composers Renaissance composers 1560s births 1628 deaths Composers for harpsichord People of the Elizabethan era 16th-century English composers 16th-century English musicians 17th-century English musicians Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal Professors of Gresham College 17th-century English composers 17th-century classical composers English male classical composers Children of the Chapel Royal