List of compositions by William Byrd explained

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)

Latin motets

Cantiones sacrae (Cantiones, quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur) (1575)

Liber primus sacrarum cantionum (Cantiones Sacrae I) (1589)

(all for 5 voices)

Liber secundus sacrarum cantionum (Cantiones Sacrae II) (1591)

for 5 voices:

for 6 voices:

Gradualia: ac cantiones sacrae, liber primus (Gradualia I) (1605)

for 5 voices:

For the Purification
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin
Lady Mass in Advent
Lady Mass in Christmastide
Assumption
All Saints
Miscellaneous pieces

for 4 voices:

Corpus Christi
Miscellaneous pieces

for 3 voices:

Marian antiphons and hymns
Holy Week and Easter
Candlemas

Gradualia: seu cantionum sacrarum, liber secundus (Gradualia II) (1607)

for 4 voices:

Nativity
Epiphany
Corpus Christi and The Blessed Sacrament

for 5 voices:

Easter
Ascension
Pentecost

for 6 voices:

SS. Peter and Paul
Miscellaneous

Unpublished Latin settings

A majority of the unpublished works are found in private partbooks collections. A number of 5- and 6-voice works found in the Baldwin Partbooks are rendered incomplete, as the Tenor partbook has been lost.

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for 4 voices:

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for 8 voices:

for 9 voices:

Consort song:

English music

Psalmes, sonnets, and songs of sadness and pietie (1588)

(all for 5 voices)

Psalms

Sonnets and Pastorals

Songs of sadness and piety

The funeral songs of that honourable Gent., Sir Phillip Sidney, Knight

Songs of sundrie natures (1589)

for 3 voices:

for 4 voices:

for 5 voices:

for 6 voices:

The first sett, of Italian madrigalls Englished (1590)

for 6 voices:

Psalmes, songs, and sonnets (1611)

for 3 voices:

for 4 voices:

for 5 voices:

for 6 voices:

Teares or Lamentacions of a Sorrowfull Soule (1614)

for 4 voices:

for 5 voices:

Unpublished English settings

Services

Byrd wrote at least five services.[1] [2]

  1. Venite
  2. Te Deum
  3. Benedictus
  4. Kyrie
  5. Creed
  6. Magnificat
  7. Nunc Dimittis
  1. Magnificat
  2. Nunc Dimittis
  1. Magnificat
  2. Nunc Dimittis
  1. Venite
  2. Te Deum
  3. Benedictus
  4. Kyrie
  5. Creed
  6. Magnificat
  7. Nunc Dimittis
Full anthems
Verse anthems
Consort songs

Keyboard works

BK numbers refer to Musica Britannica: William Byrd Keyboard Music, ed. Alan Brown (London: Stainer & Bell, 2 vols, 1969/71)

  1. My Ladye Nevells Grownde, BK57
  2. Qui Passe; for my Ladye Nevell, BK19
  3. The Marche before the Battell, BK93
  4. 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
  5. The Galliarde for the Victorie, BK95
  6. The Barleye Breake, BK92
  7. A Galliards Gygge, BK18
  8. The Huntes upp, BK40
  9. Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La, BK64
  10. The Firste Pavian, BK29a
  11. The Galliarde to the Firste Pavian, BK29b
  12. The Seconde Pavian, BK71a
  13. The Galliarde to the Seconde Pavian, BK71b
  14. The Third Pavian, BK14a
  15. The Galliarde to the Third Pavian, BK14b
  16. The Fourth Pavian, BK30a
  17. The Galliarde to the Fourth Pavian, BK30b
  18. The Fifte Pavian, BK31a
  19. The Galliarde to the Fifte Pavian, BK31b
  20. Pavana the Sixte; Kinbrugh Goodd, BK32a
  21. The Galliarde to the Sixte Pavian, BK32b
  22. The Seventh Pavian, BK74
  23. The Eighte Pavian, BK17
  24. The Passinge Mesures; the Nynthe Pavian, BK2a
  25. The Galliarde to the Nynthe Pavian, BK2b
  26. A Voluntarie; for my Ladye Nevell, BK61
  27. Will Yow Walke the Woods soe Wylde, BK85
  28. The Maidens Songe, BK82
  29. A Lesson of voluntarie, BK26
  30. The Second Grownde, BK42
  31. Have with Yow to Walsingame, BK8
  32. All in a Garden Grine, BK56
  33. Lord Willobies Welcome Home, BK7
  34. The Carmans Whistle, BK36
  35. Hughe Ashtons Grownde, BK20
  36. A Fancie, for my Ladye Nevell, BK25
  37. Sellingers Rownde, BK84
  38. Munsers Almaine (II), BK88
  39. The Tennthe Pavian; Mr. W. Peter, BK3a
  40. The Galliarde to the Tennthe Pavian, BK3b
  41. A Fancie, BK46
  42. A Voluntarie, BK27

Consort works (unpublished)

Others

Lost or fragmentary works

Works believed to be by Byrd

Joint commissions

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. The Treasury of English Church Music 1545-1650, ed. Peter Le Huray
  2. William Byrd: A Research and Information Guide, Richard Turbet

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