BENNET, JOHN, English madrigalist, whose first known published work, Madrigalls to Foure Voyces, was printed in 1599 (the years of his birth and death are unknown). He contributed to Morley's Triumphs of Oriana (16o 1), five hymn tunes to Bar ley's Psalter between 1604 and 1614, and some of his compositions occur in Thomas Ravenscroft's Briefe Discourse 0614). In the preface to the Briefe Discourse Ravenscroft praises him as a "gentleman admirable for all kinds of composures." No later pub lished works of his are extant, though there is an anthem by him in Thomas Myntell's ms. Tristitiae Remedium (British museum), a collection dated 1616. The Madrigalls to Foure V oyces, "All creatures that are merry-minded," from the Triumphs of Oriana and two pieces from the Briefe Discourse have been printed by the English madrigal society. Ms. compositions exist in the collec tions of the British museum, Fitzwilliam museum and Peterhouse college, Cambridge, and Christ Church, Oxford.