Hugh Aston
Hugh Aston is a Compositeur English born towards 1485 and died in 1558.
In 1510, Aston - whose C-W communication of the name adopts also the forms “Asseton”, “Assheton” and especially “Ashton” - obtained off its diploma of Bachelor Music with Oxford and became chief of the choruses of Saint Mary Newark Hospital College with Leicester (between 1525 and the dissolution of these choruses in 1548).
It composed interesting a Sacred music for the catholic Liturgie (8 works including 2 incomplete masses and four parts), but is especially known thanks to a Hornepype for keyboard (virginal or organ) in which it is essential by a great technical control of the writing - in advance on “continental” works of the time - and a skilful handling of the simple Ostinato. Basing itself on criteria musicologic, one also allots two other works for keyboard to him, My Lady Carey' S Dompe and The Short Measures off my Lady Wynkfelds Rownde , although no manuscript corroborates this attribution. It is very probable that this music for keyboard was played court of Henry VIII, which leads John Bergsagel to suppose that Aston was in London between 1510 and 1525.
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