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 3 voices (c.1593-4)
Mass for 4 voices (c.1592-3)
Mass for 5 voices (c.1594-5)

Latin Motets

Cantiones, quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur (1575)

Emendemus in melius á 5 (SAATB)
Libera me Domine et pone me á 5 (ATTTB)
Peccantem me quotidie á 5 (SATTB)
Aspice Domine á 6 (AATTBB)
Attollite portas á 6 (AATTBB)
O lux beata Trinitas á 6 (SATTBB)
Laudate pueri Dominum á 6 (AATTBB)
Memento homo á 6 (ATTBBB)
Siderum rector á 5 (SATTB)
Da mihi auxilium á 6 (ATTBBB)
Domine secundum actum meum á 6 (STTBBB)
Diliges Dominum á 8 (SATBSATB)
Miserere mihi Domine á 6 (ATTBBB)
Tribue Domine; Te deprecor; Gloria Patri á 6 (SAATTB)
Libera me Domine de morte aeterna á 5 (ATTBarB)

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, Corpus Christi

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)

Part I: Christmas to Easter

Part II: Ascension, Pentecost and the Feasts of SS Peter and Paul

English Music

Psalmes, sonets, & songs of sadnes 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)

Who made thee, Hob, forsake the Plough á 2 (AA)
Lord in thy rage á 3 (SAT)
Right blest are they á 3 (STT)
Lord in thy wrath correct me not á 3 (SAT)
O God which art most merciful á 3 (SAT)
Lord hear my prayer á 3 (SAT)
From Depth of Sin á 3 (SAT)
Attend mine humble prayer á 3 (SAT)
Susanna fair á 3 (SAT)
The Nightingale á 3 (SAT)
When younglings first on Cupid fix their sight; But when by proof á 3 (SAT)
Upon a Summer's day; Then for a boat á 3 (SAT)
The greedy Hawk á 3 (SAT)
Is Love a boy?; Boy pity me á 4 (SATB)
Wounded I am; Yet of us twain á 4 (SATB)
From Cytheron the warlike boy is fled; There careless thoughts are freed; If Love be just á 4 (SAAT)
O Lord my God á 4 (ATTB)
While that the Sun á 4 (SAAT)
Rejoice rejoice á 4 (SSAA)

Cast off all doubtful care á 4 (SATB)

Weeping full sore á 5 (SATTB)

Penelope that longed for the sight á 5 (SATTB)

Compel the hawk á 5 (SATTB)

See those sweet eyes á 5 (SATBB)

When I was otherwise á 5 (SATTB)

When first by force á 5 (SATTB)

I thought that Love had been a boy á 5 (SAATB)

O dear Life á 5 (ATTBarB)

Love would discharge á 5 (SATBB)

From Virgin's Womb á 5 (SSAA)

Of gold all burnished; Her breath is more sweet á 5 (SATTB)

Behold how good a thing; And as the pleasant morning dew á 6 (SATTBB)

An earthly tree an heavenly fruit á 6 (SSSATB)

And think ye Nymphs to scorn at love; Love is a fit of pleasure á 6 (SSATTB)

If in thine heart á 6 (AATTTB)

Unto the hills mine eyes I lift á 6 (AATTBB)

Christ rising again; Christ is risen again á 6 (AATTTB)

Psalmes, songs and sonnets (1611)

The Eagle's force á 3
Of flatt'ring speech á 3
In Winter cold á 3
Who looks may leap á 3
Sing ye to our Lord á 3
I have been young á 3
In crystal towers á 3
This Sweet and Merry Month of May á 4
Let not the sluggish sleep á 4
A feigned friend á 4
Awake mine eyes á 4
Come jolly swains á 4
What is life, or worldly pleasure? á 4
[Instrumental] Fantazia á 4
Come let us rejoice unto our Lord á 4
Retire my soul á 5
Arise Lord into thy rest á 5
Come woeful Orpheus á 5
Sing we merrily unto God á 5
Crowned with flowers á 5
Wedded to will is witless á 5
Make ye joy to God á 5
Have mercy upon me á 6
[Instrumental] Fantazia á 6
This day Christ was born á 6
O God that guides the cheerful sun á 6
Praise our Lord, all ye Gentiles á 6
0 Turn our captivity á 6
Ah silly Soul á 6
How vain the toils á 6

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

External links

Free scores by William Byrd in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)