William Cobbold (1560–1639) was an English composer. He was a lay clerk and organist at the Chapel Royal. One of his best-known works today is the consort song "New Fashions".Chamber Music: A Research and Information Guide - Page 135 0415937361 John H. Baron - 2002 - Joel Kramme, "William Cobbold's 'New Fashions': Some Notes Concerning the Reconstruction of the Missing Alto Part', in John Jenkins and His Time: Studies in English Consort Music, ed. A. Ashbee and P. Holman (Oxford, 1996), 137-59....
Selected works "For Death of Her" - an elegy composed upon the 1588 death of Mrs. Mary Gascoigne. "New Fashions" - recorded by Theatre of Voices & Fretwork, Paul Hillier "With wreaths of rose and laurel" - Cobbold's contribution to The Triumphs of Oriana collection of 25 madrigals from 23 different composers published in 1601 by Thomas Morley. "Ye mortal wights"
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