In Search of: Si Ambulem in medio (Tye)

StimsonInRehab

Okay, my Musical Leonard Nimoys: I need your help finding a copy of the motet Si Ambulem in medio by Christopher Tye. There’s an edition published by Cary in 1931 (edited by Sir R.R. Terry), which is number 64 of their Polyphonic Motet series. (It’s a dual language setting.)

If anyone has access to this, or knows where I can find it, would be greatly appreciated.

Jeffrey Quick

There's a reprint of Terry here: https://www.banksmusicpublications.co.uk/three-voice-parts/four-voice-parts/si-ambulem-in-medio

The only WorldCat holdings are of the Terry ed., and in the UK. DIAMM and RISM come up empty. It's not in the A-R Editions "shorter choral works". So I suspect that it's a contrafactum/arrangement by Terry.

Jeffrey Quick

There's a reprint of the Terry here:
https://www.banksmusicpublications.co.uk/three-voice-parts/four-voice-parts/si-ambulem-in-medio

WorldCat gives only the Terry edition, with holdings only in the UK. No hits on DIAMM or RISM. The A-R Editions "Shorter choral works" doesn't include it, which makes me suspect that it's actually a contrafactum by Terry.

maestrodicapella

I have it.

GerardH

That footnote is hilarious:

From his "Actes of the Apostles." Tye turned the first fourteen chapters of the Acts into verses of so doggerel a character that no editors of the music (and there have been many) have ventured to print anything but adaptations.

The Actes of the Apostles is on CPDL for anyone interested in performing it.

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