Composition - - American Recorder Society
Psallite Domino
By William Byrd (1540 - 1623)
 Arranged By Peter Seibert 2022
 
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This short, joyous Psalm setting for five voices comes from one of the late Gradualia publications.  It starts with a declamatory call-and-response on Psallite and then proceeds with extensive word-painting on qui ascendit.  Notice how Byrd uses the ascending scales over and over, some of them traversing an 11th or 12th without a break.  There follows a rich Alleluia.   Playing time about one minute.
-- Peter Seibert
 
 
 
No. of Recorder Parts:
5
Difficulty:
Moderate
Occasion:
Any
Libraries:
Arrangements and Transcriptions
Date Added:
11/27/2022
Style:
Renaissance/Baroque/Classical