From the depth I called on thee, O Lord (Christopher Tye)

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• (Posted 2022-12-07) 

• CPDL #71824:  At source pitch for SSTB or AATB:      

• CPDL #71823:  Transposed up a minor third for SSAB:      

Editor: Jason Smart (submitted 2022-12-07).   Score information: A4, 13 pages, 199 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC ND

Edition notes: Edited from the Hamond Partbooks via the digital images on DIAMM. Original note values retained.

• (Posted 2018-03-20)  CPDL #49095: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2018-03-20).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 68 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.

General Information

Title: From the depth I called on thee, O Lord
Composer: Christopher Tye
Lyricist: Psalm 130, vv. 1-4^{create page}

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicings: SSTB, AATB or SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript c.1560-1590 in British Library Add. MS 30480-30483 (Hamond Partbooks), no. 29
Description: Tye was an enthusiastic participant in the Edwardian reformation, composing for the newly coined English liturgy. Tye's text, a translation of Psalm 130, is from the King's Primer of 1545. The translator remains unidentified. It is most likely to be one who held favour with the Edwardian settlement around the period of the drafting and adoption of the Book of Common Prayer of 1549.

Original text and translations

English text

From the depth I called on thee, O Lord: Lord hear my voice.
Let thy ears give good heed to the voice of my prayers.
If thou, Lord, will look straightly upon sins, O good Lord,
who shall abide it?
But with thee is mercy.
Amen.