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Orlando Gibbons, an Uncommon card
Orlando Gibbons was an English composer and keyboard player who was one of the last masters of the English Virginalist School and English Madrigal School.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 99
- Power
- 174
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 29,000
Power 174 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Orlando Gibbons quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Orlando Gibbons card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Musicologists characterize his music as exemplifying the transition from the ______ to the Baroque periods.
Answer
Renaissance. Musicologists characterize his music as exemplifying the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque periods. From the Orlando Gibbons article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of concert halls. List of concert halls 97 · Sho Sakurai 94 · Guy Lombardo 81 · Orlando Gibbons 75 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The best known member of a musical family dynasty, by the 1610s he was the leading composer and organist in England, with a career cut short by his untimely death in 1625.
- As a result, Gibbons's oeuvre was not as large as that of his contemporaries, like the elder William Byrd, but he made considerable contributions to many genres of his time.
- Musicologists characterize his music as exemplifying the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque periods.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Orlando Gibbons article was read about 29,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 99: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Orlando Gibbons
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Orlando Gibbons (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
