Tudor Musician Robert Parsons (1535-1571): "Nunc Dimittis" and "Magnificat"

Tudor Hampton Court
Royal Chapel

Tudor musician, Robert Parsons (1535-1571), of the Chapel Royal and, perhaps, aide-de-camp, if you will, to William Byrd at Lincoln Cathedral.

Here is the Nunc Dimittis, Luke 2.29-32, Simeon's great confession and exclamation of faith in Christ the Savior, God's salvation, and the gobal, providential and soteriological designs of the Abrahamic covenant (underscored by later Prophets)

"Lorde, nowe lettest thou thy servaunte departe in peace: accordyng to thy woorde....
For myne iyes have sene thy salvacion. Whiche thou haste prepared, before the face of all thy people; To be a lyght for to lighten the Gentiles: and to bee the glorye of thy people of Israel. Glorye be to the father, & etc. As it was in the beginnyng, & etc."

"Nunc Dimittis," Luke 2.229-32



"Magnificat," Luke 1.46ff.