Vocal works
Masses (c. 1592–5)
*Mass for Three Voices (c. 1593–4) *Latin motets
''Cantiones sacrae'' (''Cantiones , quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur'') (1575)
*Emendemus in melius á 5 *Libera me Domine et pone me á *Peccantem me quotidie á 5 *Aspice Domine á 6 *Attollite portas á 6 *O lux beata Trinitas á 6 *Laudate pueri Dominum á 6 *Memento homo á 6 *Siderum rector á 5 *Da mihi auxilium á 6 *Domine secundum actum meum á 6 *Diliges Dominum á 8 *Miserere mihi Domine á 6 *Tribue Domine; Te deprecor; Gloria Patri á 6 *Libera me Domine de morte aeterna á 5 *Gloria patri á 6 *Te deprecor á 6''Liber primus sacrarum cantionum'' (''Cantiones Sacrae I'') (1589)
(all for 5 voices) *Defecit in dolore – Sed tu Domine *Domine praestolamur – Veni Domine noli tardare *O Domine adjuva me *Tristitia et anxietas – Sed tu Domine *Memento Domine *Vide Domine afflictionem – Sed veni Domine *Deus venerunt gentes – Posuerunt morticinia – Effuderunt sanguinem – Facti sumus opprobrium *Domine tu jurasti *Vigilate *In resurrectione tua *Aspice Domine de sede – Respice Domine *Ne irascaris Domine – Civitas sancti tui *O quam gloriosum est regnum – Benedictio et claritas *Tribulationes civitatum – Timor et hebetudo – Nos enim pro peccatis *Domine secundum multitudinem *Laetentur coeli – Orietur in diebus''Liber secundus sacrarum cantionum'' (''Cantiones Sacrae II'') (1591)
for 5 voices: *Laudibus in sanctis – Magnificum Domini – Hunc arguta *Quis est homo – Diverte a malo *Fac cum servo tuo *Salve Regina – Et Jesum *Tribulatio proxima est – Contumelias et terrores *Domine exaudi orationem – Et non intres in judicium *Apparebit in finem *Haec dicit Dominus – Haec dicit Dominus *Circumdederunt me *Levemus corda *Recordare Domine – Quiescat Domine *Exsurge Domine *Miserere mei Deus for 6 voices: *Descendit de coelis – Et exivit per auream portam *Domine non sum dignus *Infelix ego – Quid igitur faciam? – At te igitur *Afflicti pro peccatis – Ut eruas nos *Cantate Domino *Cunctis diebus *Domine salva nos *Haec dies''Gradualia: ac cantiones sacrae, liber primus'' (''Gradualia I'') (1605)
for 5 voices:=Marian masses
= *Suscepimus Deus *Sicut audivimus *Senex puerum portabat *Nunc dimittis *Responsum accepit Simeon *Salve sancta parens *Virgo Dei genitrix *Felix es *Beata es *Beata viscera *Rorate caeli desuper *Tollite portas *Ave Maria *Ecce Virgo concipiet *Vultum tuum *Speciosus forma *Post partum *Felix namque *Alleluia – Ave Maria – Virga Jesse *Gaude Maria *Diffusa est gratia *Gaudeamus omnes *Assumpta est Maria *Optimam partem *Adoramus te Christe (voice + 4 viols) *Unam petii a Domino *Plorans plorabit for 4 voices:=All Saints
= *Gaudeamus omnes *Timete Dominum *Justorum animae is for 5 voices, not 4 *Beati mundo corde=Miscellaneous pieces
= *Ecce quam bonum *Christus resurgens *Visita quaesumus *Salve Regina *Alma redemptoris mater *Ave Regina caelorum *In manus tuas *Laetania *Salve sola Dei genitrix *Senex puerum portabat *Hodie beata Virgo Maria *Deo gratias for 3 voices:=Marian antiphons and hymns
= *Quem terra pontus aethera *O gloriosa Domina *Memento salutis auctor *Ave Maris stella *Regina caeli=Holy Week and Easter
= *Alleluia – espere autem sabbathiQuae lucescit *Haec dies *Angelus Domini descendit *Post dies octo – Mane nobiscum *Turbarum voces=Candlemas
= *Adorna thalamum tuum''Gradualia: seu cantionum sacrarum, liber secundus'' (''Gradualia II'') (1607)
for 4 voices:=Nativity
= *Puer natus est nobis *Viderunt omnes *Dies sanctificatus *Tui sunt coeli *Viderunt omnes *Hodie Christus natus est *O admirabile commertium *O magnum misterium *Beata Virgo=Epiphany
= *Ecce advenit Dominator Dominus *Reges Tharsis *Vidimus stellam *Surge illuminare=Corpus Christi and The Blessed Sacrament
= *Ab ortu solis *Venite comedite *Alleluia – Cognoverunt discipuli *Ego sum panis vivus *O quam suavis *Jesu nostra redemptio for 5 voices:=Easter
= *Resurrexi *Haec dies *Victimae paschali *Terra tremuit *Pascha nostrum=Ascension
= *Viri Galilei *Alleluia – Ascendit Deus *Dominus in Sina *Ascendit Deus *Psallite Domino *O rex gloriae=Pentecost
= *Spiritus Domini *Alleluia – Emitte spiritum tuum *Veni sancte spiritus *Confirma hoc Deus *Factus est repente *Veni sancte spiritus *Non vos relinquam orphanos for 6 voices:=SS. Peter and Paul
= *Nunc scio vere *Constitues eos principes *Solve jubente Deo *Tu es Petrus *Hodie Simon Petrus *Tu es pastor ovium *Quodcunque ligaveris=Miscellaneous
= *Laudate Dominum *Venite exultemusUnpublished Latin settings
for 3 voices: *Sanctus (authenticity uncertain) for 4 voices: *Alleluia. Confitemini Domino *Christe qui lux es for 5 voices: *Audivi vocem *Benigne fac *Christe qui lux es *Decantabat populus (authenticity uncertain) *De lamentatione Jeremiæ prophetæ *Domine Deus omnipotens *Domine exaudi orationem *Ne perdas cum impiis *Omni tempore benedic Deum *Peccavi super numerum *Petrus beatus *Reges Tharsis (authenticity uncertain) *Sacris solemnis (authenticity uncertain) *Vide Domine quoniam tribulor (authenticity uncertain) for 6 voices: *Circumspice Jerusalem - Ecce enim veniunt *Deus in adjutorium *Domine ante te *O salutaris hostia for 8 voices: *Ad Dominum cum tribularer *Quomodo cantabimus for 9 voices: *Domine quis habitabit Consort song: *Quis me statimEnglish music
''Psalmes, sonnets, and songs of sadness and pietie'' (1588)
(all for 5 voices) Psalms * O God give ear and do apply * Mine eyes with fervency of sprite * My soul oppressed with care and grief * How shall a young man prone to ill * O Lord how long wilt thou forget * O Lord who in thy sacred tent * Help Lord for wasted are those men * Blessed is he that fears the Lord * Lord in thy wrath * Even from the depth Sonnets and Pastorals * I joy not in no earthly bliss * Though Amaryllis dance in green * Who likes to love let him take heed * My mind to me a kingdom is * Where fancy fond for pleasure pleads * O you that hear this voice * If women could be fair * Ambitious love * What pleasure have great Princes * As I beheld I saw a herdman wild * Although the heathen poets * In fields abroad * Constant Penelope * La verginella * Farewell false love * The match that's made Songs of sadness and piety * Prostrate O Lord I lie * All as a Sea * Susanna fair * If that a sinner's sighs * Care for thy soul * Lulla, Lullaby * Why do I use? The funeral songs of that honourable Gent., Sir Phillip Sidney, Knight * Come to me grief for ever * O that most rare breast''Songs of sundrie natures'' (1589)
for 3 voices: * Lord in thy rage * Right blest are they * Lord in thy wrath correct me not * O God which art most merciful * Lord hear my prayer * From depth of sin * Attend mine humble prayer * Susanna fair * The nightingale * When younglings first on Cupid fix their sight – But when by proof * Upon a summer's day – Then for a boat * The greedy hawk for 4 voices: * Is Love a boy? – Boy pity me * Wounded I am – Yet of us twain * From Cytheron the warlike boy is fled – There careless thoughts are freed – If Love be just * O Lord my God * While that the sun * Rejoice rejoice horus of 'From virgin's womb''* Cast off all doubtful care horus of ''An earthly tree'' for 5 voices: * Weeping full sore * Penelope that longed for the sight * Compel the hawk * See those sweet eyes * When I was otherwise * When first by force * I thought that Love had been a boy * O dear life * Love would discharge * From virgin's womb * Of gold all burnished – Her breath is more sweet for 6 voices: * Behold how good a thing – And as the pleasant morning dew * An earthly tree an heavenly fruit * Who made thee, Hob, forsake the plough * And think ye Nymphs to scorn at love – Love is a fit of pleasure * If in thine heart * Unto the hills mine eyes I lift * Christ rising again – Christ is risen again''The first sett, of Italian madrigalls Englished'' (1590)
for 6 voices: * This sweet and merry month of May''Psalmes, songs, and sonnets'' (1611)
for 3 voices: * The eagle's force * Of flatt'ring speech * In winter cold – whereat an ant * Who looks may leap * Sing ye to our Lord * I have been young * In crystal towers for 4 voices: * This sweet and merry month of May * Let not the sluggish sleep * A feigned friend * Awake mine eyes * Come jolly swains * What is life or worldly pleasure? * nstrumentalFantazia * Come let us rejoice unto our Lord for 5 voices: * Retire my soul * Arise Lord into thy rest * Come woeful Orpheus * Sing we merrily unto God – Blow up the trumpet * Crowned with flowers * Wedded to will is witless * Make ye joy to God for 6 voices: * Have mercy upon me * nstrumentalFantazia * This day Christ was born * O God that guides the cheerful sun * Praise our Lord, all ye Gentiles * Turn our captivity * Ah silly soul * How vain the toils''Teares or Lamentacions of a Sorrowfull Soule'' (1614)
for 4 voices: *Look down, O Lord, on me a poor man *Be unto me, O Lord, a tower of strength for 5 voices: *I laid down to rest and sleep *Come help O GodUnpublished English settings
=Services
= Byrd wrote at least five services.William Byrd: A Research and Information Guide, Richard Turbet * Short ('First') Service, for 6 voices # Venite # Te Deum # Benedictus # Kyrie # Creed # Magnificat # Nunc Dimittis * Second Service, for 5 voices # Magnificat # Nunc Dimittis * Third Service, for 5 voices # Magnificat # Nunc Dimittis * Great Service, for 10 voices # Venite # Te Deum # Benedictus # Kyrie # Creed # Magnificat # Nunc Dimittis * Short Morning Service (fragment)=Full anthems
= *Arise O Lord (6vv) *Exalt thyself O God (6vv) *How long shall mine enemies triumph? (5vv) *O God the proud are risen (6vv) *O God whom our offences have displeased (5vv) *O Lord make thy servant Elizabeth (6vv) *O praise our Lord (5vv) *Out of the deep (6vv) *Prevent us O Lord (5vv) *Save me O God (5vv) (authenticity uncertain) *Sing joyfully (6vv)=Verse anthems
= *Alack when I look back *Behold O God the sad and heavy case *Christ rising again/Christ is risen *Hear my prayer O Lord *O Lord rebuke me not *Thou God that guid'st=Consort songs
= *An aged dame *Ah golden hairs *As Cæsar wept *Blame I confess *Come pretty babe *Content is rich *Crowned with flowers and lilies *Delight is dead *E'en as the seas *Fair Britain isle *Have mercy on us Lord *He that all earthly pleasure scorns *In angel's weed *I will not say *The Lord is only my support *Lord to thee I make my moan *The man is blest *Mount Hope *My freedom *My mistress had a little dog *O God but God *O Lord bow down *O Lord how vain *O Lord within thy tabernacle *O that we woeful wretches *Out of the orient crystal skies *Rejoice unto the Lord *Sith death at length *Sith that the tree *Though I be brown *Thou poets' friend *Triumph with pleasant melody *Truce for a time *Truth at the first *What steps of strife *Where the blind *While Phœbus used to dwell *With lilies white *Wretched Albinus *Ye sacred musesKeyboard works
BK numbers refer to Musica Britannica: William Byrd Keyboard Music, ed. Alan Brown (London: Stainer & Bell, 2 vols, 1969/71) *Consort works (unpublished)
*3 fantasias, 3vv *4 fantasias, 4vv *Prelude and ground, 5vv *Fantasia, 5vv ('2 parts in 1') *Browning, 5vv *Pavan, 5vv *2 fantasias, 6vv *Pavan and galliard, 6vvOthers
Lost or fragmentary works
*Ad punctum in modico á 2 (BB) – Fragmentary *Ah, youthful years – Fragmentary *Behold, how good – Fragmentary *Cease Cares – Fragmentary *Depart ye furies – Fragmentary *Litany á 4 (SATB) – Fragmentary, and a doubtful work *If trickling tears – Fragmentary *In tower most high – Fragmentary *I will give laud – Fragmentary *Jubilate Deo, omnis terra – Fragmentary, and a doubtful work *Look and bow down – Fragmentary *Oh happy thrice – Fragmentary *O trifling days – Fragmentary *Preces Deo fundamus – Fragmentary *Service in F – Fragmentary, and a doubtful work *Sponsus amat sponsam á 2 (ST) – Fragmentary, and a doubtful work *What wights are these? – Fragmentary *While that a cruel fire – Fragmentary *With sighs and teares – FragmentaryWorks believed to be by Byrd
*Ave regina caelorum á 5 (ATTBarB) – Claimed to be by "Mr Byrde" in the ''Paston Lute Book'', however the editors of the ''Tudor Church Music Book'' attributed the work toJoint commissions
*In exitu Israel á 4 (SSAT) – A joint work with John Sheppard and William Mundy.References
Further reading
* (17 volumes) * (2 volumes)External links
* *{{ChoralWiki, William Byrd, William Byrd