virginalistn.

1913 J. E. Matthew tr. C. van den Borren Sources of Keyboard Mus. in Eng. iv. 66 After Tallis, John Bull is the only virginalist who still used faux-bourdon as a means of figuration.

1924 M. H. Glyn About Elizabethan Virginal Mus. ii. 22 Had Orlando Gibbons lived out his span instead of dying in his early prime..the English Keyboard school must have attained publication... This music contains seeds which will yet fructify, unknown even to the later seventeenth century musicians, who were not true descendants of the virginalists.

1942 E. Blom Mus. in Eng. xi. 183 The Elizabethan virginalists, for example, liked to base variations on them.

1960 Times 4 Mar. 4/6 The Elizabethan virginalists discovered that possibility and exploited it.

1979 Early Music 7 3 Clearly, there is no reason why the virginalist absolutely must have music, but there is a reason in this case why she should not.