PDF Canon • “Non Nobis Domine” (William Byrd)
This Canon, attributed to William Byrd, was greatly admired by Beethoven and Mozart.
Jesus said to them: “I have come into this world so that a sentence may fall upon it, that those who are blind should see, and those who see should become blind. If you were blind, you would not be guilty. It is because you protest, ‘We can see clearly,’ that you cannot be rid of your guilt.”
A theorist, organist, and conductor, Jeff Ostrowski holds his B.M. in Music Theory from the University of Kansas (2004). He completed studies in Education and Musicology at the graduate level. Having worked as a church musician in Los Angeles for ten years, in 2024 he accepted a position as choirmaster for Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Michigan, where he resides with his wife and children. —Read full biography (with photographs).
This Canon, attributed to William Byrd, was greatly admired by Beethoven and Mozart.
Recorded by participants at the 2018 Symposium!
The famous wit of William F. Buckley Jr. is quite conspicuous in this clip.
We’ve released rehearsal videos for the Kyrie—today, we release the Sanctus & Benedictus!
Why so much deliberation over every choice? Why so much discussion about a single stanza, or even a single word?
I included several nasty “Medicæa” harmonizations from the 19th century…
The Alto line goes down low a few times—but in those days, men might have sung this.
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