Peerson, Pearson, or Pierson, Martin, Mus. Bac.

PEERSON, PEARSON, or PIERSON, Martin, Mus. Bac., graduated at Oxford July 8, 1613. He was one of the contributors to Leighton's ‘Teares or Lamentacions, etc.’ 1614. In 1620 he published ‘Private Musicke, or the First Booke of Ayres and Dialogues. Contayning Songs of 4, 5 and 6 parts, of severall sorts, and being Verse and Chorus, is fit for Voyces and Viols. And for want of Viols they may be performed to either the Virginall or Lute,...