Editing John Blow (section)

==Music==
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Blow wrote fourteen [[service (music)|services]] and 30 odes for royal celebrations, 50 secular song-like pieces and more than a hundred anthems.<ref name=choral/>

In addition to purely ecclesiastical music and his relatively well-known masque ''[[Venus and Adonis (opera)|Venus and Adonis]]'', Blow's works include ''Great sir, the joy of all our hearts'', an [[ode]] for New Year's Day 1682, similar compositions for 1683, 1686, 1687, 1688, 1689, 1693 (?), 1694 and 1700; odes, and the like, for the celebration of [[St Cecilia]]'s Day for 1684, 1691, 1695 and 1700; for the coronation of James II, two anthems, ''Behold, O God, our Defender'' and ''God spake sometime in visions''; some [[harpsichord]] pieces for the second part of [[Henry Playford]]'s ''Musick's handmaid'' (1689); ''Epicedium for Queen Mary'' (1695) and ''Ode on the Death of Purcell'' (1696).<ref name="EB1911"/>

In 1700 he published his ''Amphion Anglicus'', a collection of pieces of music for one, two, three and four voices, with a [[figured bass]] accompaniment.<ref name="EB1911"/> This includes a setting for voice and continuo of the poem ''[[The Self Banished]]'' by [[Edmund Waller]].<ref>John Blow ''Amphion Anglicus'', 1700</ref>