Agnus Dei (Mass for Four Voices)
Agnus Dei (Mass for Four Voices). Tudor Church Music, vol. IX (Oxford University Press, 1928), Mass for Four Voices pp.17–35, Agnus Dei pp.34–35. Editor Richard Runciman Terry according to IMSLP #841694. Complete 19-page historical score retained; separate 1981 Brett excerpt contains no Agnus Dei. IMSLP.
Source
| Work | William Byrd. Agnus Dei (Mass for Four Voices) |
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| Edition | Tudor Church Music, vol. IX (Oxford University Press, 1928), Mass for Four Voices pp.17–35, Agnus Dei pp.34–35. Editor Richard Runciman Terry according to IMSLP #841694. Complete 19-page historical score retained; separate 1981 Brett excerpt contains no Agnus Dei. |
| Identifier | byrd-agnus-dei-transcription.json |
| Custody | IMSLP |
| Origin | Source edition ↗ |
Preserved copy
| Alterations | Direct manual collation of all 33 engraved bars and four voices on pp.34–35. Original two-flat pitch level retained. The literal historical table has 452 quarter beats; the playable edition uniformly halves all written values to 226 quarter beats, with proportional 4/8 for source common-time C and the same non-metrical bar divisions marked implicit. Two dotted breves (Bassus bar 27 D3 and Tenor bar 31 D4) become tied whole-plus-half notes to keep sounding heads visible on narrow screens, without reattacks or altered underlay. Conventional tenor treble read at sounding octave. Cross-bar augmentation dots are explicit tied continuation heads; other ties are distinguished from underlay melismas. Original Latin A-gnus and independent text placements retained; final fermatas retained. No printed dynamic marks are present. Quarter 60 (equivalent to historical half 60), warm choir and room are performance choices. See the complete transcription, 132-row evidence table and six source-confirmed duration corrections. The recovered 54-bar MXL is a diagnostic candidate only. |
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| File | application/vnd.recordare.musicxml+xml, unpaginated, 129,235 bytes |
| SHA-256 | 330a1b2d6c5776f2b2f8a6277493f8912a8cd589e2c1d4546596a26e0ec973c7 |
| Rights | Composition, Latin text and 1928 edition: public domain (edition status recorded by IMSLP). Fresh transcription credits this historical witness; no modern CPDL or Stainer & Bell permissions are invented or transferred. |