English musician, "the father of English cathedral music'. One of the greatest contrapuntists of the English School, an adaptation of his plainsong responses, and his setting of the Canticles in D Minor, are still in use. He wrote much church music, including a motet in 40 parts, Spem in alium. In 1575 Elizabeth I granted him, with Byrd, a monopoly for printing music and music paper in England.