Elizabethan Composer John Amner (1579-1641): Te Deum (Ely Cathedral Choir)

John Amner (1579-1641): Te Deum (Cesar's Service)

The Choir of Ely Cathedral
David Price, organ
Paul Trepte, Director of Music

Ely Cathedral is pictured

We praise Thee, O God: We acknowledge thee to be the Lord.
All the earth doth worship thee: the father everlasting.
To thee all angels cry aloud: the heav'ns and all the powers therein.
To thee Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry:
Holy, holy, holy Lord God of Sabaoth.
Heav'n and earth are full of the majesty of thy glory.
The glorious company of the Apostles praise thee.
The goodly fellowship of the Prophets praise thee.
The noble army of martyrs praise thee.
The holy church throughout all the world doth acknowledge thee,
the Father of an infinite majesty: thine honourable true and only Son,
also the Holy Ghost the Comforter.
Thou art the king of glory, O Christ.

Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father.
When thou took'st upon thee to deliver man, thou didst not abhor the Virgin's womb.
When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death:
thou didst open the kingdom of heav'n to all believers.
Thou sittest at the right hand of God: in the glory of the Father.
We believe that thou shalt come to be our judge.
We therefore pray thee help thy servants
whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood.
Make them to be numbered with thy saints in glory everlasting.

O Lord save thy people and bless thine heritage.
Govern them and lift them up for ever.
Day by day we magnify thee and we worship thy name ever world without end.

Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin: O Lord have mercy upon us.
O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us as our trust is in thee.
O Lord, in thee have I trusted; let me never be confounded.

From Wiki.

John Amner (1579–1641) was an English composer.

A composer of sacred works, Amner was born at Ely, Cambridgeshire and had a close association with Ely Cathedral, even before his employment there as Informator choristarum (1610–1641), through his relatives, Michael and Ralph Amner, who were both lay clerks there.^[1] He received his Bachelor of Music from Oxford with the support of the Earl of Bath in 1613, and also from Cambridge in 1640.^[2] He was employed as both an organist and clergyman at the Cathedral after he obtained his first degree. He was subsequently ordained to the diaconate, later becoming vicarius (minor canon). In 1615, he published a collection entitled Sacred Hymnes of 3, 4, 5 and 6 parts for the Voyces and Vyols, which represents most of his known works. His other works include Preces (both for five voices), four settings of the daily canticles, several simple four-part anthems, slightly more complex five-part anthems, and verse anthems. Roughly a dozen of these works were recorded in the 1990s, and many were performed by the Ely Cathedral choir, including Blessed be the Lord God; Hear, O Lord; Have mercy; I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live; My Lord is hence removed and laid; O sing unto the Lord; O ye little flock; the Second Service (Cesar's) and Sing, O heavn's. Amner also wrote a pavan and galliard for viols and a single keyboard piece that stands out historically as the only recognized group of variations on a metrical psalm tune (O Lord in thee is all my trust).

Works, editions and recordings

• A stranger here. Come, let's rejoice. O ye little flock. on collection Tune thy Musicke to Thy Hart, Stile Antico, Fretwork. Harmonia Mundi 2012.

References

1.      ^ Lionel Pike Pills to purge melancholy: the evolution of the English ballett - 2004 Chapter 5 The Opportunist John Amner 1615, Page 243 "John Amner (1579-1641) was a native of Ely, and was a chorister at the Cathedral there: he spent the majority of his life in that city, moving away for only one prolonged period,..."

2.     ^ Venn, J.; Venn, J. A., eds. (1922–1958). "Amner, John". Alumni Cantabrigienses (10 vols) (online ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

External links

• Free scores by John Amner in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)