The Huntes upp is a keyboard work in C major by William Byrd, based on an Elizabethan song. The words are:
The hunt is up, the hunt is up,
To bring his deer to bay.
And it is a well nigh day;
And Harry our king has gone hunting,
The piece has 11 variation (music)s on the songs The Hunt is Up and The Nine Muses. It is usually played on a harpsichord or piano and takes around 7 minutes.
The work is included in two of the most important collections of keyboard music of the Renaissance, My Ladye Nevells Booke and the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.