Kyrie Le Roy (John Taverner)

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• (Posted 2019-03-17)  CPDL #53609:     

Editor: Andrew Fysh (submitted 2019-03-17).   Score information: A4, 3 pages   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Original pitch. Original note values retained. This edition corrects three errors in the source (see Editorial Notes in score).

• (Posted 2005-03-17)  CPDL #10793:      (Finale 2005)

Editor: Charles H. Giffen (submitted 2005-03-17).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 139 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Original time signatures.

Possible error(s) identified. See the discussion page for full description.

• (Posted 2006-01-08)  CPDL #10649:         

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2006-01-08).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 108 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Arrangement (source?) augmented with plainchant, and keyboard reduction.

General Information

Title: Kyrie 'Le Roy'
Composer: John Taverner

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Mass fragment

Language: Greek
Instruments: A cappella

First published: ca. 1572 -78 in British Library, MSS Add. 17802–5 (Gyffard Partbooks) [London], no. 7
– This is the only surviving source.

Description: Quintessential setting of the Kyrie, which in Taverner's day was, more often than not, troped and hence often missing from mass settings.

Orginal text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Kyrie.