- Brian Elias
Of Elutropia (1982)
- Chester Music Ltd (World)
Programme Note
ELUTROPIA is a gemme, in colour greene, or grassie, in part coloured and bespotted with Purple speckes and bloud coloured vaines. This is a marvellous Jugler, for it wil cause things object to be presented to our eies as it listeth. It being put into a Basan of water chaungeath to a mans eiesight the Sunne his beames, and giveth them a contrarie colour. Being also mooved and beaten in the ayre, maketh to appeare a bloudie Sunne, and darkneth the ayre in maner of an Eclipse: and therefore it is called ELUTROPIA as you would say, the Sunne his enemie…
John Maplet (d.1592)
John Maplet (d.1592)