Kyrie Le Roy (John Taverner)
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- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
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Orginal text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Kyrie.