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15.    {{NoComp|Surge, illuminare, Jerusalem|William Byrd}}<br>
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''Post Pascha'' [Miscellaneous items for Corpus Christi, The Ascension and Votive Mass of the Blessed Sacrament]
''Post Pascha'' [Miscellaneous items for Corpus Christi, The Ascension and Votive Mass of the Blessed Sacrament; nos.3-14 above also belong in this group.]


16.    {{NoComp|Alleluia. Cognoverunt discipuli|William Byrd}}<br>
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Revision as of 14:48, 12 January 2009

The second volume of Byrd’s liturgical music for the major feasts of the Church’s year includes complete Mass propers for Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, The Ascension, Pentecost and SS. Peter and Paul, as well as some items for Corpus Christi and the Votive Mass of the Blessed Sacrament not included in volume I. Considerably better-organised than its predecessor, it is able thanks to the more self-contained nature of the feasts involved to abandon the "transfer" scheme employed for the Marian masses in volume I.

First published in 1607, it was reprinted in 1610 with new covers bearing the entirely fraudulent claim that it has been newly revised. The dedicatee is Byrd’s great patron John, Lord Petre of Writtle.

For 4 voices

In nativitate Domini [Christmas]

1. Puer natus est nobis
2. Viderunt omnes (Gradual)
3. Dies sanctificatus
4. Tui sunt coeli
5. Viderunt omnes (Communion)
6. Hodie Christus natus est
7. O admirabile commertium
8-9. O magnum mysterium - Beata Virgo

In Epiphania Domini

10. Ecce advenit dominator Dominus
11. Reges Tharsis
12. Vidimus stellam
13-14. Ab ortu solis - Venite comedite
15. Surge, illuminare, Jerusalem

Post Pascha [Miscellaneous items for Corpus Christi, The Ascension and Votive Mass of the Blessed Sacrament; nos.3-14 above also belong in this group.]

16. Alleluia. Cognoverunt discipuli
17. Ego sum panis vivus
18. O quam suavis
19. Jesu nostra redemptio

For 5 voices

In tempore Paschali [Easter]

20. Resurrexi
21. Haec dies - Alleluia Pascha nostrum
22. Victimae paschali laudes
23. Terra tremuit
24. Pascha nostrum

In Ascensione Domini

25. Viri Galilaei
26-27. Alleluia - Ascendit Deus
28. Ascendit Deus in jubilatione
29. Psallite Domino
30. O Rex gloriae

In festo Pentecostes

31. Spiritus Domini
32-33. Alleluia - Emitte Spiritum tuum
34. Confirma hoc Deus
35. Factus est repente
36. Veni Sancte Spiritus
37. Non vos relinquam orphanos

For 6 voices

In festo SS. Petri & Pauli [SS. Peter & Paul, S. Peter's Chains]

38. Nunc scio vere
39. Constitues eos Principes (Gradual)/Constitues eos Principes (Offertory)
40. Solve jubente Deo
41. Tu es Petrus
42. Hodie Simon Petrus
43. Tu es pastor ovium
44. Quodcunque ligaveris

[Non-liturgical motets]

45. Laudate Dominum omnes gentes
46. Venite exultemus Domino