Mikołaj Gomółka (c. 1535–c. 1609) was a Polish Renaissance composer and
instrumentalist, active at the royal court of Sigismund II Augustus and later
associated with the courts of Kraków Bishop Piotr Myszkowski and Chancellor Jan
Zamoyski. His only surviving work is Melodie na psałterz polski (Melodies for
the Polish Psalter), published in Kraków in 1580, a collection of 150 short
four-part settings of the Psalms in Jan Kochanowski’s Polish translation.
Written largely in a clear nota contra notam style and closely shaped to the
Polish language, the collection is a landmark of 16...