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, 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:
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
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 & 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, & 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)
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