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)

Latin Motets

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:

Marian Masses

for 4 voices:

All Saints
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:

The Nativity
Epiphany
Corpus Christi and The Blessed Sacrament

for 5 voices:

Easter
Ascension
Pentecost

for 6 voices:

SS. Peter & Paul
Miscellaneous

English Music

Psalmes, sonnets, & 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:

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:

Keyboard Works

Others

Lost or fragmentary works

Works believed to be by Byrd

Joint commissions

See also

External links