Tye, Christopher, MUS. D., born at Westminster in the reign of Henry VIII. He was celebrated as a musician, and was granted the degree of MUS. D. at Cambridge in 1545. He was musical tutor to King Edward VI., and organist of the Chapel Royal under Queen Elizabeth. Besides composing numerous anthems, he rendered the first fourteen chapters of the Acts of the Apostles into metre, which were set to music by him and sung in Edward 6th's Chapel, and published in 1553. He died circa 1580.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Go to dark Gethsemane,
You who feel the tempter's pow'r;
Your Redeemer's conflict see;
Watch with Him one bitter hour;
Turn not from His griefs away;
Learn of Jesus Christ to pray.
Tune Title: GETHSEMANEFirst Line: Throned upon the awful treeComposer: Christopher Tye, c. 1500-c. 1573; William Henry Monk, 1823-1889Meter: 7 7 7 7 7 7Key: a minorDate: 1971
Tune Title: GETHSEMANEFirst Line: Go to dark GethsemaneComposer: Christopher Tye, c. 1508-1572; William Henry Monk, 1823-1889Meter: 7 7 7 7 7 7.Key: a minorDate: 1936
Tune Title: GETHSEMANEFirst Line: Go to dark GethsemaneComposer: Christopher Tye, c. 1508-1572; William Henry Monk, 1823-1889Meter: 7 7 7 7 7 7.Key: a minorDate: 1930
Tune Title: GETHSEMANEFirst Line: Go to dark GethsemaneComposer: Christopher Tye, c. 1508-1572; W. H. Monk, 1823-1889Meter: 7. 7. 7. 7. 7. 7.Key: a minorDate: 1940