Christopher Tye

Life

Born: 1505

Died: 1572

Biography:

The entry in Cathedral Music, Volume 2 (William Boyce) reads:

Christopher Tye, was born in the City of Westminster, and commenced a Batchelor in Music at Cambridge in 1537. He took his Degree of Doctor there in 1545, and was admitted in the same Year, a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal. In 1548, he was also complimented with the last mentioned Degree, at Oxford.

He was possessed of great Skill both in the theoretical and praxtical Branches of his Profession. The Acts of the Apostles were translated by him into English Verse, and adapted to Sounds: He published them in 1553, with a Dedication to King Edward the Sixth.

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List of choral works at CPDL

Sacred works in Latin

Ad te clamamus (Salve regina) Alleluia Per te Dei genitrix Amavit eum Dominus Ascendo ad patrem meum (Jean Maillard) Cantate Domino Dum transisset III Gloria from The Mean Mass

Gloria laus In pace Kyrie Orbis factor Laudate nomen Domini Mass Euge bone Mass The Western Wynde Miserere mei Deus

O splendor gloriae (John Taverner) Omnes gentes, plaudite manibus Peccavimus cum patribus Quaesumus omnipotens Sub tuam protectionem

Sacred works in English

And in that tyme Herode the Kyng The apostles and brethren were glad At Antioche there dyd remayne A certayne man who was named Christ rising again The death of Steven dyd Saule comfort Deliver us, good Lord, from eternal death The eternal gates lift up their heads From the depth I called on thee, O Lord Give almes of thy goods Hail, glorious spirits How still and peaceful is the grave I have loved I lift my heart to thee

I will exalt thee If ye be risen again with Christ In the foremer treatyse In those dayes as the nombre playne It chaunced in Iconium Lord, let thy servant Magnificat and Nunc dimittis My trust O Lord in thee is grounded O come, ye servants of the Lord O God of Bethel O God, be merciful O Holy Spirit, Lord of grace O Lord of hosts O Lord, deliver me from mine enemies

O Lord, rebuke me not O Lord, thy word endureth Peter and John they toke their way Praise ye the Lord ye children Saule breathing out threatnyngs abrode Save me, O God, for thy name's sake Sing unto the Lord A sound of angels Then sayde the chefe priest Is it so? Then was there one Cornelius When that the fyftye daye was come When that the people taught they had

Sacred works in Greek

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Larger works

Actes of the Apostles

• In the foremer treatyse
• When that the fyftye daye was come
• Peter and John they toke their way
• When that the people taught they had
• A certayne man who was named
• In those dayes as the nombre playne
• Then sayde the chefe priest Is it so?
• The death of Steven dyd Saule comfort
• Saule breathing out threatnyngs abrode
• Then was there one Cornelius
• The apostles and brethren were glad
• And in that tyme Herode the Kyng
• At Antioche there dyd remayne
• It chaunced in Iconium

I will exalt thee

Part 1. I will exalt thee

Part 2. Sing unto the Lord

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Publications

• The Actes of the Apostles (1553) at the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)