List of compositions by William Byrd

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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, 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

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
• Beati mundo corde

Corpus Christi

• Cibavit eos
• Oculi omnium
• Sacerdotes Domini
• Quotiescunque manducabitis
• Ave verum corpus
• O salutaris hostia
• O sacrum convivium
• [Pange 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 – [Vespere autem sabbathi] Quae 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 exultemus

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
• 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 (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
• 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
• The Maidens Songe
• A Lesson of Voluntarie
• The Second Grownde
• Have with Yow to Walsingame
• All in a Garden Grine
• Lord Willobies Welcome Home
• The Carmans Whistle
• Hughe Ashtons Grownde
• A Fancie
• Sellingers Rownde
• Munsers Almaine
• The Tennthe Pavian; Mr. W. Peter
• The Galliarde to the Tennthe Pavian
• A Fancie
• A Voluntarie

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.

See also

• 69 pieces in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book

External links

• Free scores by William Byrd at the International Music Score Library Project
• Free scores by List of compositions by William Byrd in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)