English apothecary, poet and amateur composer. Apart from two two-part suites in Playford's Court Ayres, all of his music is found in a Bodleian Library manuscript. It contains four suites for two trebles and bass, a fifth for three trebles and bass, the bass part of a sixth, and a seventh suite of three-part ayres alamode made in ye yeare 1674 [...]
Source: Peter Holman: Valentine Oldis quoted from Grove Music Online accessed 06 January 2010
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