List of compositions by William Byrd

This is a list of the musical compositions by William Byrd, one of the most celebrated English composers of the Renaissance.

Vocal works

Masses (c. 1592–5)

*Mass for Three Voices (c. 1593–4)
*Mass for Four Voices (c. 1592–3)
* Mass for Five Voices (c. 1594–5)

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

= Corpus Christi

=
*Cibavit eos
*Oculi omnium
*Sacerdotes Domini
*Quotiescunque manducabitis
*Ave verum corpus
*O salutaris hostia
*O sacrum convivium
* ange lingua– Nobis datus

=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

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*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 exultemus

Unpublished 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 statim

English 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 God

Unpublished 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 muses

Keyboard works

BK numbers refer to Musica Britannica: William Byrd Keyboard Music, ed. Alan Brown (London: Stainer & Bell, 2 vols, 1969/71)
*My Ladye Nevells Booke (1591)
#My Ladye Nevells Grownde, BK57
#Qui Passe; for my Ladye Nevell, BK19
#The Marche before the Battell, BK93
#The Battell, BK94: The souldiers sommons; The marche of footemen; The marche of horsmen; The trumpets; The Irishe marche; The bagpipe and the drone; The flute and the droome; The marche to the fighte; The retreat
#The Galliarde for the Victorie, BK95
#The Barleye Breake, BK92
#A Galliards Gygge, BK18
# The Huntes upp, BK40
#Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La, BK64
#The Firste Pavian, BK29a
#The Galliarde to the Firste Pavian, BK29b
#The Seconde Pavian, BK71a
#The Galliarde to the Seconde Pavian, BK71b
#The Third Pavian, BK14a
#The Galliarde to the Third Pavian, BK14b
#The Fourth Pavian, BK30a
#The Galliarde to the Fourth Pavian, BK30b
#The Fifte Pavian, BK31a
#The Galliarde to the Fifte Pavian, BK31b
#Pavana the Sixte; Kinbrugh Goodd, BK32a
#The Galliarde to the Sixte Pavian, BK32b
#The Seventh Pavian, BK74
#The Eighte Pavian, BK17
#The Passinge Mesures; the Nynthe Pavian, BK2a
#The Galliarde to the Nynthe Pavian, BK2b
#A Voluntarie; for my Ladye Nevell, BK61
#Will Yow Walke the Woods soe Wylde, BK85
#The Maidens Songe, BK82
#A Lesson of voluntarie, BK26
#The Second Grownde, BK42
# Have with Yow to Walsingame, BK8
#All in a Garden Grine, BK56
#Lord Willobies Welcome Home, BK7
# The Carmans Whistle, BK36
# Hughe Ashtons Grownde, BK20
#A Fancie, for my Ladye Nevell, BK25
#Sellingers Rownde, BK84
#Munsers Almaine (II), BK88
#The Tennthe Pavian; Mr. W. Peter, BK3a
#The Galliarde to the Tennthe Pavian, BK3b
#A Fancie, BK46
#A Voluntarie, BK27

*69 pieces in the ''Fitzwilliam Virginal Book''
*8 pieces in ''Parthenia''

*The French coranto, BK21a
*The second French coranto, BK21b
*The 3rd French coranto, BK21c
*A Horne Pipe, BK39
*Miserere I, BK66
*Miserere II, BK67
*Parludam, BK115
*A Pavin, BK33a
*Galliard, BK33b
*Eccho paven, BK114a
*The Galliard, BK114b
*A Preludium, BK116
*Christe qui lux, BK121
*Gloria tibi trinitas, BK50
*A Verse of Two Parts, BK28
*A Ground, BK43
*A Grounde, BK9
*Clarifica me pater a 2, BK47
*Salvator mundi I, BK68
*Salvator mundi II, BK69
*Ut, Re, Mee, Fa, Sol, La, The playnesong Breifs To Be played By a second person, BK58
*Go from my window, BK79
*A Ground, BK86
*O quam gloriosum est regnum
*If my complaints, or Pyper's Galliard, BK118
*A Pavion, BK23a
*The Galliard, BK23b
*Pavin, BK76
*A Galliard, BK77
*An Alman, BK117
*Paven, BK73a
*Galiard, BK73b
*A Pavyn, BK16a
*A Galliard, BK16b
*A Pavion, BK72a
*The Galliard to it, BK72b

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, 6vv

Others

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 – Fragmentary

Works 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 to John Taverner.

Joint 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

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*{{ChoralWiki, William Byrd, William Byrd

A complete list of works by William Byrd
from Stainer & Bell

Byrd, William