1543–1623 · English

Byrd, William

The greatest Elizabethan composer, whose keyboard variations, masses and sacred motets define the English Renaissance at its most refined and inventive.

Sacred Work (8)

Cantiones1575
Cantiones Sacrae (1575, with Tallis)c.1575
Cantiones1589
Cantiones Sacrae Book 1 (1589)1589
Cantiones1591
Cantiones Sacrae Book 2 (1591)1591
Gradualia1
Gradualia Vol. 11605
Gradualia2
Gradualia Vol. 21607
ByrdMassA3
Mass for 3 Voicesc.1593
ByrdMassA4
Mass for 4 Voicesc.1592
ByrdMassA5
Mass for 5 Voicesc.1595

Keyboard Piece (4)

MyLadyNevills
My Ladye Nevells Booke (42 pieces)c.1591
PartheniaByrd
Parthenia — keyboard pieces1612
WalsinghamV
Variations on 'Walsingham'c.1590
GroundsV
The Woods so Wild (keyboard ground)c.1590

Vocal Consort (5)

Psalmes1588
Psalmes, Sonets, and Songs (1588)1588
Songs1589
Songs of Sundrie Natures (1589)1589
Psalmes1611
Psalmes, Songs, and Sonnets (1611)1611
ConsortSongs
Consort Songs (various)c.1580–1610
FantasiasByrd
Fantasias for Violsc.1575–1610

Service (1)

GreatService
Great Service (Morning, Communion & Evening Service)c.1590–1605

Orchestral Work (177)

T.131
Ab ortu solis
T.185
Ad Dominum cum tribularer
T.81
Adoramus te Christe
T.118
Adorna thalamum tuum
T.51
Afflicti pro peccatis
T.312
Ah Silly Soul
T.209
Alack, When I Look Back
T.243
All as a Sea
T.430
All in a Garden Green
T.144
Alleluia. Ascendit Deus
T.134
Alleluia. Cognoverunt discipuli
T.165
Alleluia. Confitemini Domino
T.145
Alleluia. Dominus in Sina
T.150
Alleluia. Emitte Spiritum tuum
T.113
Alleluia. Verspere autem sabbathi
T.100
Alma redemptoris Mater
T.115
Angelus Domini descendit
T.199
Arise, O Lord, Why Sleepest Thou?
T.230
As I Beheld I Saw a Herdman Wild
T.146
Ascendit Deus
T.29
Aspice Domine de sede sancta tua
T.7
Aspice Domine
T.252
Attend Mine Humble Prayer
T.8
Attollite portas principes vestras
T.167
Audivi vocem
T.111
Ave maris stella
T.101
Ave Regina caelorum
T.92
Ave verum corpus
TheBattell
The Battell
T.309
Be unto Me
T.65
Beata es
T.127
Beata virgo
T.66
Beata viscera Mariae Virginis
T.87
Beati mundo corde
T.365
Behold, O God
T.442
The Bells
T.62
Benedicta et venerabilis
T.169
Benigne fac
T.387
Browning
T.443
Callino Casturame
T.241
Care for Thy Soul
T.444
The Carman's Whistle
T.280
Christ Is Risen Again
T.170
Christe qui lux es et dies
T.405
Christe qui lux es et dies
T.408
Christe qui lux es et dies
T.409
Christe redemptor
T.410
Christe redemptor
T.97
Christus resurgens
T.88
Cibavit eos
T.181
Circumspice Hierusalem
T.292
Come Jolly Swains
T.244
Come to Me Grief
T.338
Come, Pretty Babe
T.268
Compel the Hawk
T.152
Confirma hoc Deus
T.233
Constant Penelope
T.157
Constitues eos principes
T.339
Content Is Rich
FVB.241
Coranto
T.13
Da mihi auxilium
T.171
De lamentatione Jeremiae prophetae
T.19
Defecit in dolore
T.107
Deo gratias
T.48
Descendit de coelis
T.182
Deus in adjutorium
T.25
Deus, venerunt gentes
Diesilla
Dies illa
T.121
Dies sanctificatus
T.77
Diffusa est gratia
T.15
Diliges Dominum
T.183
Domine ante te
T.173
Domine Deus omnipotens
T.20
Domine praestolamur
T.187
Domine quis habitabit
T.14
Domine secundum actum meum
T.33
Domine secundum multitudinem
T.26
Domine tu iurasti
T.281
The Eagle's Force
T.128
Ecce advenit
T.96
Ecce quam bonum
T.70
Ecce virgo concipiet
T.135
Ego sum panis vivus
T.4
Emendemus in melius
T.153
Factus est repente
T.356
Fair Britain Isle
T.290
A Feigned Friend
T.64
Felix es
T.74
Felix namque es
T.191
First Preces and Psalms
T.459
Fortune
T.449
French Coranto
T.260
From Citheron
T.251
From Depth of Sin
T.263
From Virgin's Womb
T.78
Gaudeamus omnes in Domino
T.84
Gaudeamus omnes in Domino
T.465
The Ghost
T.466
Gipsies’ Round
T.257
The Greedy Hawk
T.55
Haec dies
T.114
Haec dies
T.139
Haec dies
T.302
Have Mercy upon Me
HearMyPrayerOLordT192c
Hear My Prayer, O Lord, T 192c
T.217
Help Lord, for Wasted Are those Men
T.124
Hodie Christus natus est
T.160
Hodie Simon Petrus
T.201
How Long Shall Mine Enemies Triumph Over Me?
T.308
How Vain the Toils
HugheAshtonsGrownde
Hughe Ashtons Grownde
T.476
The Hunt's Up
T.221
I Joy Not in No Earthly Bliss
T.272
I Thought that Love
T.372
I Will Give Laud
T.278
If in Thine Heart
T.227
If Women Could Be Fair
T.232
In Fields Abroad
T.102
In manus tuas
T.393
In Nomine a 4
T.394
In Nomine a 4
T.395
In Nomine a 5
T.396
In Nomine a 5
T.397
In Nomine a 5
T.398
In Nomine a 5
T.399
In Nomine a 5
T.28
In resurrectione tua Domine
T.50
Infelix ego
T.258
Is Love a Boy?
T.86
Iustorum animae
T.137
Jesu nostra redemptio
T.480
Jhon Come Kisse Me Now
T.479
Jig
FVB.294
Lady Montegle's Paven
T.103
Laetania
T.34
Laetentur coeli
T.163
Laudate Dominum omnes gentes
T.10
Laudate pueri Dominum
T.18
Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna
T.5
Libera me, Domine, et pone me juxta te
T.250
Lord Hear My Prayer
T.246
Lord in Thy Rage
T.248
Lord in Thy Wrath Correct Me Not
T.219
Lord in Thy Wrath Reprove Me Not
T.242
Lullaby
FVB.150
Malt's come downe
FVB.173
A Medley
MementoDomine
Memento Domine
T.11
Memento homo
T.110
Memento salutis auctor
MethoughtofLate
Methought of Late
FVB.176
Miserere a 3 (Clarifica me pater)
FVB.177
Miserere a 4
MisereremeiDeus
Miserere mei Deus
T.16
Miserere mihi Domine
T.411
Miserere
T.412
Miserere
MyLadyeNevellsGrownde
My Ladye Nevells Grownde
MyLittleSweetDarling
My Little Sweet Darling
MyLordofOxenfordsMaske
My Lord of Oxenfords Maske
MyMindtoMeaKingdomIs
My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is
NeirascarisDomine
Ne irascaris Domine
T.174
Ne perdas cum impiis
TheNightingale
The Nightingale
T.155
Non vos relinquam orphanos
T.59
Nunc dimittis servum tuum
T.156
Nunc scio vere
T.125
O admirabile commercium
ODomineadjuvame
O Domine adjuva me
T.109
O gloriosa Domina
OGodgiveearanddoapply
O God give ear and do apply
OGodthatGuidestheCheerfulSun
O God that Guides the Cheerful Sun
TheCollectedVocalWorks
The Collected Vocal Works
CompleteKeyboardWorks
Complete Keyboard Works
GradualiaaccantionessacraeLiber1
Gradualia ac cantiones sacrae, Liber 1
GradualiaaccantionessacraeLiber2
Gradualia ac cantiones sacrae, Liber 2
none 14PiecesforKeyedInstruments
14 Pieces for Keyed Instruments

Piano Piece (20)

T.75
Alleluia. Ave Maria
FVB.63
Alman
FVB.156
Alman
FVB.163
Alman
T.79
Assumpta est Maria
T.69
Ave Maria
TheEarlofSalisburyPavanand2Galli
The Earl of Salisbury Pavan and 2 Galliards
T.380
Fantasia a 4
T.389
Fantasia a 6
T.390
Fantasia a 6
T.460
Galliard Mrs. Mary Brownlo
FVB.164
Galliard
FVB.175
Galliard
T.76
Gaude Maria
T.106
Hodie beata Virgo Maria
MonsieursAlmanVariatioFVB6162
Monsieur's Alman & Variatio, FVB 61-62
Fantasiasfor3Viols
Fantasias for 3 Viols
Fantasiasfor4Viols
Fantasias for 4 Viols
Fantasiasfor6Viols
Fantasias for 6 Viols
PavansforConsortReconstructions
Pavans for Consort Reconstructions

Suite (1)

T.485
The March Before the Battle

Song (2)

FVB.126
The Maydens Song
PsalmesSonetsandSongs
Psalmes, Sonets and Songs