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Title

The actes of the apostles : translated into English metre and dedicated to the Kings most excellent Majestie / by Christofer Tye, doctor in musyke and one of the gentlemen of his graces most honourable chappel ; with notes to each chapter to synge and also to playe on the lute ; very necessarye for students after their studye to fyle their wyttes, and also for all Christians that cannot synge, to reade the the [sic] good and godly storyes of the lives of Christ his apostles.

Author

Tye, Christopher, 1497?-1572.

Publication

1553 [i.e. 1777]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Overend, Marmaduke, -1790.
• Drexel Collection.

Description

1 ms. score (28 p.); 29 cm.

Uniform Title

Actes of the Apostles

Alternative Title

Actes of the Apostles

Subject

• Bible. > Paraphrases, English > Musical settings
• Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 4 parts)
• Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles > Musical settings

Note

• Manuscript copy in ink made by Marmaduke Overend, Isleworth, 1777
• Contains excerpts from the first fourteen chapters of the Biblical book, Acts, in metre and harmonized in four parts (SATB).

Call Number

Drexel 4794

OCLC

772633235

Author

Tye, Christopher, 1497?-1572.

Title

The actes of the apostles : translated into English metre and dedicated to the Kings most excellent Majestie / by Christofer Tye, doctor in musyke and one of the gentlemen of his graces most honourable chappel ; with notes to each chapter to synge and also to playe on the lute ; very necessarye for students after their studye to fyle their wyttes, and also for all Christians that cannot synge, to reade the the [sic] good and godly storyes of the lives of Christ his apostles.

Imprint

1553 [i.e. 1777]

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Added Author

Overend, Marmaduke, -1790. Music copyist

Drexel Collection.

Research Call Number

Drexel 4794