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John Cooper -LRB- c. 1570 -- 1626 -RRB- , also known as Giovanni Coprario or Coperario , was an English composer , viol player and lutenist .. English. England. composer. composer. viol. viol. He changed his name in the early 17th century .. It is often said he did this after a visit to Italy , though there is no evidence he had been to the country .. Italy. Italy. From 1622 he served and may have taught the Prince of Wales , for whom he continued to work upon his succession as Charles I. His longtime patron was Edward Seymour , Earl of Hertford , for whom he taught William Lawes .. Prince of Wales. Prince of Wales. Charles I. Charles I of England. patron. patronage. William Lawes. William Lawes. Among Cooper 's works are fantasias , suites and other works for viols and violins , and two collections of songs , Funeral Teares -LRB- 1606 -RRB- and Songs of Mourning  : Bewailing the Untimely Death of Prince Henry -LRB- 1613 -RRB- .. He also penned the treatise on composition , Rules how to Compose .. According to Ernst Meyer , Cooper was a Londoner who Italianized his name as Italian music and musicians became more fashionable , and spent much of his life as a musician in the royal court .. Ninety-six fantasias in between three and six voices , most of them in two Oxford and Royal College of Music collections , were known to exist by Cooper -LRB- as of 1946 -RRB- .. Meyer also notes that most of Cooper 's five - and six-part fantasias are mainly transcriptions , or imitations , of his madrigals , but that his fantasias for three or four instrumental parts are , formally especially , independently interesting .