Tye was an English organist and composer of choral and instrumental music. Apparently a native of East Anglia, Tye received a doctorate in Music from Cambridge in 1537 and was later associated with the Priory of Ely. Tye was a contemporary of Thomas Tallis, and contributed to the assimilation of continental structural principles into English music during the first half of the sixteenth century. Rather little survives of his sacred choral music,Read more but what does remain represents an interesting personal synthesis of the older English florid style and the techniques of structural imitation and syllabic text setting. Tye's sparing use of imitation and the general absence of soloist passages gives his music a tighter cohesiveness than that of the previous generation -- his mass Euge Bone is perhaps the most impressive example of the period.
Today, Tye is at least as well known as a composer of instrumental ensemble music for viol consort. He left 31 such compositions, apparently composed late in his life. These include 21 settings of the "In Nomine" type -- based on Taverner's cantus firmus and incorporating all manner of instrumental ideas within a purely polyphonic context. Tye is credited as the first significant composer of instrumental chamber music, and his examples are of uniformly high quality. They represent a substantial legacy for Western music. Read less
Label: Naxos
Catalog: 8503297
Release Date: 06/14/2019
Number of Discs: 30
Composer:
Anonymous,
Hildegard of Bingen,
Berenguier de Palazol,
Giraut de Bornelh
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Performer:
Marco Ambrosini,
Maria D. Lafitte,
Thomas Wimmer,
Riccardo Delfino
...
Conductor:
Alberto Turco,
Jeremy Summerly,
Michael Posch,
Marco Ambrosini
...
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Nova Schola Gregoriana,
Oxford Camerata,
Ensemble Unicorn
...
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Label: Alpha Productions
Catalog: 450
Release Date: 05/10/2019
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Anonymous,
Giorgio Mainerio,
Christopher Tye,
Hayne van Ghizeghem
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Performer:
Giovanni Antonini
Conductor:
Giovanni Antonini
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Il Giardino Armonico
Label: King's College Choir
Catalog: 0015
Release Date: 07/08/2016
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Charles Hubert Parry,
Charles Villiers Stanford,
Ralph Vaughan Williams,
Sir William Walton
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Performer:
Tom Hopkins,
Tom Etheridge,
Tom Pickard,
Benjamin Sheen
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Conductor:
Stephen Cleobury,
Tom Etheridge
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Cambridge King's College Choir,
King's Voices
Label: Delphian
Catalog: 34115
Release Date: 05/14/2013
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
William Mundy,
Nicholas Strogers,
Robert Mallory,
Nathaniel Giles
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Performer:
Rory McCleery,
Gwendolen [Soprano Vocal] Martin,
Emma Walshe,
John Bryan
Conductor:
Rory McCleery
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Rose Consort of Viols
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Label: Warner Classics
Catalog: 65836
Release Date: 02/26/2013
Number of Discs: 12
Composer:
Georg Philipp Telemann,
Arcangelo Corelli,
Francesco Barsanti,
Francesco Maria Veracini
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Performer:
Frans Brüggen,
Gustav Leonhardt,
Anner Bylsma,
Alda Stuurop
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Conductor:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Brüggen-Consort
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Label: Regis
Catalog: 2091
Release Date: 01/29/2013
Number of Discs: 2
Composer:
John Taverner,
William Byrd,
Thomas Tallis,
Orlando Gibbons
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Conductor:
Edward Higginbottom
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Oxford New College Choir
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Label: Saydisc
Catalog: 65
Release Date: 01/11/2011
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
King VIII Henry,
Christopher Tye,
William Cornysh,
Anonymous
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Performer:
Paula Chateauneuf,
Suzie LeBlanc,
Deborah Roberts,
Richard [Bass Vocals] Wistreich
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Conductor:
James Wood
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Musica Antiqua of London,
Fretwork,
The York Waits
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Label: Avie
Catalog: 2186
Release Date: 04/13/2010
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
William Byrd,
William Cornysh,
Worcester Frag Anonymous,
Thomas Tallis
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Performer:
New York Polyphony
Orchestra/Ensemble:
New York Polyphony
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Label: Crd Records
Catalog: 3507
Release Date: 05/01/2009
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Charles Villiers Stanford,
Samuel Sebastian Wesley,
Maurice Greene,
William Boyce
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Conductor:
Edward Higginbottom
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Oxford New College Choir
Label: Crd Records
Catalog: 3487
Release Date: 05/01/2009
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
William Cobbold,
William Byrd,
Anthony Holborne,
Anonymous
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Performer:
Hille Perl,
Sarah Cunningham,
Dirk Freymuth,
Erin Headley
...
Conductor:
Nancy Hadden
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Red Byrd,
Ensemble Circa 1500