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===[[Image:Latin.png]] in Latin (P-Z)=== | ===[[Image:Latin.png]] in Latin (P-Z)=== | ||
{{Top}} | {{Top}} | ||
*{{NoCo|Pange lingua gloriosi}} | *{{NoCo|Pange lingua gloriosi}} 4vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Pascha nostrum}} | *{{NoCo|Pascha nostrum}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Passio Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Johannem}} ''All editions withdrawn'' | *{{NoCo|Passio Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Johannem}} 3vv ''All editions withdrawn'' | ||
*{{NoCo|Peccantem me quotidie}} | *{{NoCo|Peccantem me quotidie}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Peccavi super numerum}} | *{{NoCo|Peccavi super numerum}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Pietas omnium}} | *{{NoCo|Pietas omnium}} 3vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Plorans plorabit}} | *{{NoCo|Plorans plorabit}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Post dies octo - Mane nobiscum}} | *{{NoCo|Post dies octo - Mane nobiscum}} 3vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Post partum Virgo}} | *{{NoCo|Post partum Virgo}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Christe qui lux es et dies|Precamur sancte Domine}} | *{{NoCo|Christe qui lux es et dies a 5|Precamur sancte Domine}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Propter veritatem - Alleluia - Assumpta est Maria}} | *{{NoCo|Propter veritatem - Alleluia - Assumpta est Maria}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Psallite Domino}} | *{{NoCo|Psallite Domino}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Puer natus est nobis}} | *{{NoCo|Puer natus est nobis}} 4vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Quem terra, pontus, aethera}} | *{{NoCo|Quem terra, pontus, aethera}} 3vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Quis est homo}} - ''Diverte a malo'' | *{{NoCo|Quis est homo}} - ''Diverte a malo'' 5vv | ||
{{mdl|4}} | {{mdl|4}} | ||
*{{NoCo|Quodcunque ligaveris}} | *{{NoCo|Quodcunque ligaveris}} 6vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Quomodo cantabimus}} 8vv | *{{NoCo|Quomodo cantabimus}} 8vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Quotiescumque manducabitis}} | *{{NoCo|Quotiescumque manducabitis}} 4vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Recordare Domine - Quiescat Domine}} | *{{NoCo|Recordare Domine - Quiescat Domine}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Reges Tharsis a 4}} | *{{NoCo|Reges Tharsis a 4}} | ||
*{{NoCo|Reges Tharsis a5}} | *{{NoCo|Reges Tharsis a5}} | ||
*{{NoCo|Regina coeli laetare}} | *{{NoCo|Regina coeli laetare}} 3vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Responsum accepit Simeon}} | *{{NoCo|Responsum accepit Simeon}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Resurrexi}} | *{{NoCo|Resurrexi}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Rorate caeli desuper}} | *{{NoCo|Rorate caeli desuper}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Sacerdotes Domini}} | *{{NoCo|Sacerdotes Domini}} 4vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Sacris solemniis}} | *{{NoCo|Sacris solemniis}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Salve Regina - Et Jesum benedictum}} (1591) | *{{NoCo|Salve Regina - Et Jesum benedictum}} (1591) 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Salve Regina (1605)}} | *{{NoCo|Salve Regina (1605)}} 4vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Salve sancta parens}} | *{{NoCo|Salve sancta parens}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Salve sola Dei genitrix}} | *{{NoCo|Salve sola Dei genitrix}} 4vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Senex puerum portabat a 4}} | *{{NoCo|Senex puerum portabat a 4}} | ||
{{mdl|4}} | {{mdl|4}} | ||
*{{NoCo|Senex puerum portabat (a 5)}} | *{{NoCo|Senex puerum portabat (a 5)}} | ||
*{{NoCo|Siderum rector}} | *{{NoCo|Siderum rector}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Solve jubente Deo}} | *{{NoCo|Solve jubente Deo}} 6vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Speciosus forma}} | *{{NoCo|Speciosus forma}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Spiritus Domini}} | *{{NoCo|Spiritus Domini}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Surge, illuminare, Jerusalem}} | *{{NoCo|Surge, illuminare, Jerusalem}} 4vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Suscepimus Deus - Justitia - Magnus Dominus}} | *{{NoCo|Suscepimus Deus - Justitia - Magnus Dominus}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Suscepimus Deus - Sicut audivimus}} | *{{NoCo|Suscepimus Deus - Sicut audivimus}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Terra tremuit}} | *{{NoCo|Terra tremuit}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Timete Dominum}} | *{{NoCo|Timete Dominum}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Tollite portas}} | *{{NoCo|Tollite portas}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Tribue Domine - Te deprecor - Gloria Patri}} | *{{NoCo|Tribue Domine - Te deprecor - Gloria Patri}} 6vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Tribulatio proxima est - Contumelias et terrores}} | *{{NoCo|Tribulatio proxima est - Contumelias et terrores}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Tribulationes civitatum - Timor et hebetudo - Nos enim pro peccatis}} | *{{NoCo|Tribulationes civitatum - Timor et hebetudo - Nos enim pro peccatis}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Tristitia et anxietas - Sed tu Domine}} | *{{NoCo|Tristitia et anxietas - Sed tu Domine}} 5vv | ||
{{mdl|4}} | {{mdl|4}} | ||
*{{NoCo|Tu es pastor ovium}} | *{{NoCo|Tu es pastor ovium}} 6vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Tu es Petrus}} | *{{NoCo|Tu es Petrus}} 6vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Tui sunt coeli}} | *{{NoCo|Tui sunt coeli}} 4vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Unam petii a Domino}} | *{{NoCo|Unam petii a Domino}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Veni Sancte Spiritus}} | *{{NoCo|Veni Sancte Spiritus}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Venite exultemus Domino}} | *{{NoCo|Venite exultemus Domino}} 6vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Victimae paschali laudes}} | *{{NoCo|Victimae paschali laudes}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Vide Domine afflictionem - Sed veni Domine}} | *{{NoCo|Vide Domine afflictionem - Sed veni Domine}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Viderunt omnes (Communion)}} | *{{NoCo|Viderunt omnes (Communion)}} 4vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Viderunt omnes (Gradual)}} | *{{NoCo|Viderunt omnes (Gradual)}} 4vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Vidimus stellam}} | *{{NoCo|Vidimus stellam}} 4vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Vigilate}} | *{{NoCo|Vigilate}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Virgo Dei genitrix}} | *{{NoCo|Virgo Dei genitrix}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Viri Galilaei}} | *{{NoCo|Viri Galilaei}} 5vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Visita quaesumus}} | *{{NoCo|Visita quaesumus}} 4vv | ||
*{{NoCo|Vultum tuum}} | *{{NoCo|Vultum tuum}} 5vv | ||
{{btm}} | {{btm}} | ||
Revision as of 01:15, 11 January 2023
Aliases: William Byrde; William Bird; William Birde; William Burde; William Burd – If his surviving signatures are a representative sample, the composer's preferred spelling of his own name was "Byrde", although on his own publications it also appears as Bird and Byrd. His contemporaries knew him indiscriminately as Byrd(e), Bird(e) and even Burd(e).
Life
Born: 1539 or 1540?
Died: 4 July 1623
Biography:
Byrd's will, dated November 1622, declares that he is ‘in the 80th yeare of myne age’, but since a deposition of October 1598 gives his age as ‘58 yeares or ther abouts’ it seems likely the will had been drafted some time before being dated.
William Byrd was one of the most celebrated English composers in the Renaissance. His entire life was marked by contradictions, and as a true Renaissance man he cannot be easily categorised. He lived until well into the seventeenth century without writing music in the new Baroque fashion, but his superbly constructed keyboard works marked the beginning of the Baroque organ and harpsichord style. Byrd's life is interesting because of his Roman Catholic sympathies combined with his work in the court of the Anglican Queen Elizabeth I. He composed much music, if intermittently, for the Roman Catholic liturgy, particularly in his later years; the two volumes of Gradualia form a prime example. Possibly as a result of this he did not receive widespread recognition in his lifetime, but was very well respected among the Roman Catholic gentry. In the anti-Catholic frenzy following the 1605 Gunpowder Plot, the first volume of the Gradualia, printed by Thomas East in 1605, was banned in England under penalty of imprisonment as indeed was all of his Catholic music; however his Anglican music— such as the Short Service, and the Responses— has been sung in English cathedrals uninterrupted for the past four centuries.
The entry in Cathedral Music, Volume 2 (William Boyce) reads:
William Bird, was admitted a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal in 1569. He, in conjunction with Thomas Tallis, published in 1575 a collection of their own compositions in Latin, entitled, Sacred Songs: and in the Years 1589, 1591, and 1605, he printed three other collections of his own Productions in the same Language, all of which had the same Title with the first conjoint Publication.
His works were, in his own time, in great Repute, both at Home and Abroad, and are still held in general Estimation: His Canon of Non nobis Domine, will, in particular, remain a perpetual Monument to his Memory.--- He died in 1623.
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List of choral works
- For works at CPDL sorted alphabetically by title, see William Byrd compositions
Sacred music
in Latin (A-D)
in Latin (E-O)
in Latin (P-Z)
English Anthems
Secular music
Other works not listed above (See Template:CheckMissing for possible reasons and solutions)
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Publications (vocal music only)
- Cantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur (1575), jointly with Thomas Tallis
- Psalmes, Sonnets and Songs of sadnes and pietie (1588)
- Cantiones Sacrae I (1589)
- Songs of sundrie natures (1589)
- Cantiones Sacrae II (1591)
- Masses for 3-5 voices (1592-95)
- Gradualia I (1605)
- Gradualia II (1607)
- Psalmes, Songs, and Sonnets… (1611)
Contributions to:
- Musica Transalpina (1588)
- The first sett, of Italian madrigalls Englished (1590)
- The teares or lamentacions of a sorrowfull soule (1614)
External links
There is no single official Byrd website, but a variety of useful resources can be found scattered widely across the Web. Many of these sites still repeat the (almost certainly) incorrect birthdate of 1543.
- Works by William Byrd in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)
- Classical.net article - Brief biography and long out-of-date discography.
- Stainer & Bell's Byrd Home Page - Complete list of works, plus links to the Byrd Edition.
- John Sankey's keyboard page - Includes midi files of the complete keyboard works.
- Midiworld - Basically a duplicate of John Sankey's site, plus some midi files of non-keyboard works.
- Byrd on HOASM - Includes useful links and some facsimiles of printed editions.