Dr. Tye was a peevish and humorsome man, especially in his later days, and sometimes playing on the organ in the Chapel of Qu : Eliz : which contained much music but little to delight the ear. She would send the Verger to tell him that he played out of... English Church Composers - Page 18de William Alexander Barrett - 1882 - 179 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| John Aikin - 1814 - 662 pages
...playing on the organ in the chapel of Q. Elizabeth, which contained much music, but little delight to the ear, she would send the verger to tell him that...whereupon he sent word that her ears were out of tune." Wood adds, that " Dr. Туе restored church-music after it had been almost ruined by the dissolution... | |
| John Nichols - 1823 - 710 pages
...playing on the organ in the Chapel of Queen Elizabeth, which contained much musie, but little delight to the ear, she would send the verger to tell him that...whereupon he sent word that her ears were out of tune. The same author adds, that Dr. Tye restored Church-music after it had been almost ruined by the dissolution... | |
| 1826 - 534 pages
...especially in his latter days; and sometimes playing on the organ in the chapel of Queen Elizabeth [//ta<] which contained much music, but little to delight...whereupon he sent word, that her ears were out of tune." In an old play, entitled, When you see me, you know me, by Rowley, printed in 1613, wherein are represented,... | |
| George Hogarth - 1835 - 486 pages
...sometimes," continues this amusing annalist, " playing on the organ in the chapel of queeri*Elizabeth, what contained much music but little to delight the ear,...whereupon, he sent word, that her ears were out of tune." An admirable specimen of his style, the anthem for four voices, " I will exalt thee, O Lord," is given... | |
| 1835 - 642 pages
...Queen Elizabeth, what contained much music, but little to delight the ear, she would send the verser to tell him that he played out of tune, whereupon he sent word that her ears were out of tune." Towards the close of the sixteenth, and the beginning of the seventeenth century, " shone that constellation... | |
| 1850 - 464 pages
...sometimes," continues this amusing writer, " playing on the organ in the Chapel of Queen Elizabeth ; what contained much music, but little to delight the ear,...whereupon he sent word that her ears were out of tune." Dr. Boyce's Collection of Cathedral Music contains some admirable specimens of his style. Thomas Tallis,... | |
| Charles Henry Cooper, Thompson Cooper - 1858 - 616 pages
...sometimes playing on the organ in the chapel of Qu. Eliz. which contained much music, tmt little delight to the ear, she would send the verger to tell him that...whereupon he sent word that her ears were out of tune." Dr. Tye is one of the characters introduced into Kowley's comedy, "When you see me you know me," printed... | |
| 1863 - 314 pages
...defects. The latter writer tells us that " once playing on the organ in the chapel of Queen Elizabeth that which contained much music, but little to delight...whereupon he sent word, that her ears were out of tune." To his profession of music, Dr. Туе joined a considerable knowledge of English and Italian literature... | |
| Charles Knight - 1868 - 534 pages
...proof whereof he states that " Sometimes playing on the organ in the chapel of Queen Elizabeth [that] which contained much music, but little to delight...whereupon he sent word that her ears were out of tune." This curious anecdote appears, as a note, in the handwriting of Wood, in the Ashmolean Manuscripts,... | |
| 1869 - 400 pages
...Queen Elizabeth, which contained much music, but little to delight the ear, she would send the vergei to tell him that he played out of tune ; whereupon he sent word that her ears were out of tune." Thomas Tallis was botn early in the reign of Henry VIII, but very little is known of the history of... | |
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