Keep AI out of the Choir Loft
William Byrd was a bit of an enigma. He was Queen Elizabeth I’s favorite chapel musician and a Catholic during a time when the queen was ordering the deaths of holy men like Robert Southwell and Edmund Campion. For a man whose life, or at least livelihood, depended on staying in the good graces of the queen, Byrd made no secret of his faith. He was famous for bothering puritanical bishops by…