
Detail of an 18th-century posthumous engraving of William Byrd by Gerard Vandergucht, after Niccolò Haym.
Psalm 48:9-10,1 [Latin]
9 We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
10 According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
1 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
Suscepimus Deus – Justitia – Magnus Dominus, from 1605 in Gradualia I, no. 1 – by William Byrd (1539/40-1623)
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