Mass The Western Wynde - Tye, Christopher

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"The main source of Tye's mass ''The Western Wynde'' is a set of partbooks now held at the British Library, known as the Gyffard Partbooks, after an inscription in one of them. It is believed (David Mateer, The 'Gyffard' Partbooks, in Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, no. 28 (1995)) that they were compiled in the 1570s for a Dr Roger Gifford (c. 1536-1597), a physician to Queen Elizabeth and President of the Royal College of Physicians, from music he had collected during his time at Oxford University. Tye's mass appears between two other masses based on the same theme, by The Western Wind Mass (John Taverner) and Sheppard. This theme can be heard clearly throughout each of these settings; Tye always puts it in the alto part. No source is known of the melody set to a text, but there does exist a text ''Westron Wynde'', set to a different tune. Whether the melody used in the masses was originally set to this text is unclear, but the words can easily be fitted to it. In common with most contemporary English mass settings, Tye does not set the ''Kyrie'' and omits part of the ''Credo'' text (from ''Et iterum venturus'' to ''remissionem peccatorum'')."

⌛ Period → Renaissance ◈ Genre → Masses ♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → Latin

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 45

CPDL # 66991

Editor Jason Smart

Posted 2021-12-03

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