Alle psallite cum luya (Anonymous)
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CPDL #10739: 
Sibelius 3.
- Editor: Philip Legge (added 2006-01-15). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 96 kbytes Copyright: 2006 Philip Legge
- Edition notes: Included in the TUMS Busking Book. PDF also contains a setting of the same text by Philip Legge, and Fine knacks for ladies by John Dowland.
General Information
Title: Non nobis, Domine
Composer: Anonymous (not William Byrd)
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SAB
Genre: Sacred, Canon
Language: Latin
Instruments: none, a cappella
Description: This famous canon at the fifth and octave is now generally accepted by musicologists as not having been written by Byrd:
Though Non nobis Domine is a skilful canon at the fifth and the octave, it cannot convincingly be attributed to William Byrd (1542/3–1623). The eminent Byrd specialist Philip Brett came to the view that most of the canons attributed to Byrd were spurious, including this one. The earliest source of this particular canon dates from 1620 to 1625 and is preserved in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, in the "Bull" manuscript, MS 782, f.122v, where it is anonymous, unbarred and untexted; the TUMS edition above was made directly from the facsimile reprint in Musical Times volume 113 (1972), page 856, by transposing down a perfect fourth (for the soprano) and quartering the note values. The canon was published anonymously in three 17th century collections, yet the earliest attribution was made as late as 1715 by Thomas Tudway, who ascribed it to Morley; the woefully inaccurate Dr Pepusch ascribes it to Byrd in his 1731 Treatise on Harmony; and in 1739 the theme is quoted in a concerto by Carlo Ricciotti as Canone di Palestrina! The canon is known to have been admired by Mozart and Beethoven, whomever its composer was. — Philip Legge
External websites: PML Music Editions
Texts and translations
Latin text
Original text: Non nobis, Domine, non nobis; sed nomine tuo da gloriam.
English translation
Translation: Not to us, Lord, not to us; but to your name be glory.
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- CPDL #10744: Sibelius 3.
- Editor: Philip Legge (added 2006-01-15). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 188 kbytes Copyright: 2006 Philip Legge
- Edition notes: Included in the TUMS Busking Book. PDF also contains the setting of Drink to me only by Anonymous.
General Information
Title: Alleluja, psallite
Composer: Philip Legge
Number of voices: 3–4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: none, a cappella
Description: Originally for three equal voices (i.e. the two soprano parts an octave lower, together with the bass line), this edition may be performed by SATB.
External websites: PML Music Editions
Texts and translations
Latin text
Original text: Alleluja, concrepando psallite cum corde voto Deo toto, alleluja.