List of compositions by William Byrd
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This is a list of the musical compositions by William Byrd
William Byrd
William Byrd was an English composer of the Renaissance. He wrote in many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard and consort music.-Provenance:Knowledge of Byrd's biography expanded in the late 20th century, thanks largely...

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Masses (c.1592-5)

  • Mass for 3 voices (c.1593-4)
  • Mass for 4 voices (c.1592-3)
  • Mass for 5 voices (c.1594-5)

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

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 opprobium
  • 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

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:
Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi (feast)
Corpus Christi is a Latin Rite solemnity, now designated the solemnity of The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ . It is also celebrated in some Anglican, Lutheran and Old Catholic Churches. Like Trinity Sunday and the Solemnity of Christ the King, it does not commemorate a particular event in...

  • Cibavit eos
  • Oculi omnium
  • Sacerdotes Domini
  • Quotiescunque manducabitis
  • Ave verum corpus
  • O salutaris hostia
  • O sacrum convivium
  • [Pange lingua] - Nobis datus

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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 - [Vespere autem sabbathi] Quae lucescit
  • Haec dies
  • Angelus Domini descendit
  • Post dies octo - Mane nobiscum
  • Turbarum voces

The 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

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:
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 & Paul
  • Nunc scio vere
  • Constitues eos principes
  • Solve jubente Deo
  • Tu es Petrus
  • Hodie Simon Petrus
  • Tu es pastor ovium
  • Quodcunque ligaveris

Psalmes, sonets, & 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
  • Thou 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 [Chorus of 'From virgin's womb]
  • Cast off all doubtful care [Chorus 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

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?
  • [Instrumental] Fantazia
  • 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
  • [Instrumental] Fantazia
  • 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

Keyboard Works

  • My Ladye Nevells Booke
    My Ladye Nevells Booke
    My Ladye Nevells Booke is a music manuscript containing keyboard pieces by the English composer William Byrd, and, together with the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, one of the most important collections of keyboard music of the renaissance.-Description:My Ladye Nevells Booke consists of 42 pieces for...

     (1591)
  • My Ladye Nevells Grownde
  • Qui Passe; for my Ladye Nevell
  • The Marche before the Battell
  • The Battell: The souldiers sommons; The marche of footemen; The marche of horsmen; The trumpetts; 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
  • The Barleye Breake
  • A Galliards Gygge
  • The Huntes upp
    The Huntes upp
    The Huntes upp is a keyboard work in C major by William Byrd, based on an Elizabethan song. The words are:The piece has 11 variation s on the songs The Hunt is Up and The Nine Muses....

  • Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La
  • The Firste Pavian
  • The Galliarde to the Firste Pavian
  • The Seconde Pavian
  • The Galliarde to the Seconde Pavian
  • The Third Pavian
  • The Galliarde to the Third Pavian
  • The Fourth Pavian
  • The Galliarde to the Fourth Pavian
  • The Fifte Pavian
  • The Galliarde to the Fifte Pavian
  • Pavana the Sixte; Kinbrugh Goodd
  • The Galliarde to the Sixte Pavian
  • The Seventh Pavian
  • The Eighte Pavian
  • The Passinge Mesures; the Nynthe Pavian
  • The Galliarde to the Nynthe Pavian
  • A Voluntarie; for my Ladye Nevell
  • Will Yow Walke the Woods soe Wylde
    Will Yow Walke the Woods soe Wylde
    Will Yow Walke the Woods soe Wylde is the title of a song from the Tudor era, popularly believed to have been a favourite of Henry VIII. The complete text of the song has not survived, but contained the short refrain:The melody of the song can be found in several compositions of the period, and...

  • The Maidens Songe
  • A Lesson of Voluntarie
  • The Second Grownde
  • Have With Yow to Walsingame
    Have With Yow to Walsingame
    Have With Yow to Walsingame is a keyboard composition by William Byrd in G minor, based on a popular Elizabethan tune. In this work Byrd set the tune into 22 variations on the words of this song:...

  • All in a Garden Grine
  • Lord Willobies Welcome Home
  • The Carmans Whistle
    The Carmans Whistle
    "The Carmans Whistle" is a keyboard composition in C major by William Byrd. It is based on a popular Elizabethan tune.Unfortunately, the manuscript with Byrd's original score is now lost, but other manuscripts from this period survive...

  • Hughe Ashtons
    Hugh Aston
    Hugh Aston was an English composer of the early Tudor period. While little of his music survives, he is notable for his innovative keyboard writing.- Life :...

     Grownde
  • A Fancie
  • Sellingers Rownde
  • Munsers Almaine
  • The Tennthe Pavian; Mr. W. Peter
  • The Galliarde to the Tennthe Pavian
  • A Fancie
  • A Voluntarie

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
    John Taverner
    John Taverner was an English composer and organist, regarded as the most important English composer of his era.- Career :...


Joint Commissions

  • In exitu Israel á 4 (SSAT) - A joint work with John Sheppard and William Mundy

External links

  • Free scores by William Byrd in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
    Choral Public Domain Library
    The Choral Public Domain Library is a sheet music archive which focuses on choral and vocal music in the public domain or otherwise freely available for printing and performing .-Description:...

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