# 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 Three Voices (c. 1593–4)
* Mass for Four Voices (c. 1592–3)
* Mass for Five Voices (c. 1594–5)

### Latin motets
#### Cantiones sacrae (Cantiones , quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur) (1575)

* Emendemus in melius á 5
* Libera me Domine et pone me á
* Peccantem me quotidie á 5
* Aspice Domine á 6
* Attollite portas á 6
* O lux beata Trinitas á 6
* Laudate pueri Dominum á 6
* Memento homo á 6
* Siderum rector á 5
* Da mihi auxilium á 6
* Domine secundum actum meum á 6
* Diliges Dominum á 8
* Miserere mihi Domine á 6
* Tribue Domine; Te deprecor; Gloria Patri á 6
* Libera me Domine de morte aeterna á 5
* Gloria patri á 6
* Te deprecor á 6

#### 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 opprobrium
* 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:

##### For the Purification

* Suscepimus Deus
* Sicut audivimus
* Senex puerum portabat
* Nunc dimittis
* Responsum accepit Simeon

##### Nativity of the Blessed Virgin

* Salve sancta parens
* Benedicta et venerabilis - Virgo Dei genitrix
* Felix es sacra
* Beata es Virgo
* Beata viscera

##### Lady Mass in Advent

* Rorate caeli desuper
* Tollite portas
* Ave Maria
* Ecce Virgo concipiet

##### Lady Mass in Christmastide

* Vultum tuum
* Speciosus forma
* Post partum
* Felix namque

##### Assumption

* Gaudeamus omnes
* Diffusa est gratia
* Assumpta est Maria
* Optimam partem

##### All Saints

* Gaudeamus omnes
* Timete Dominum
* Justorum animae
* Beati mundo corde

##### Miscellaneous pieces

* Gaude Maria
* Alleluia – Ave Maria – Virga Jesse
* Adoramus te Christe (voice + 4 viols)
for 4 voices:

##### 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
* In manus tuas
* Laetania
* Salve sola Dei genitrix
* Senex puerum portabat
* Hodie beata Virgo Maria
* Deo gratias
* Unam petii a Domino
* Plorans plorabit
for 3 voices:

##### Marian antiphons and hymns

* Quem terra pontus aethera
* O gloriosa Domina
* Memento salutis auctor
* Ave Maris stella
* Regina caeli
* Salve Regina
* Alma redemptoris mater
* Ave Regina caelorum

##### Holy Week and Easter

* Alleluia – [Vespere autem sabbathi] Quae lucescit
* Haec dies
* Angelus Domini descendit
* Post dies octo – Mane nobiscum
* Passio Domini secundum Johannem (Turbarum voces)

##### Candlemas

* Adorna thalamum tuum

#### Gradualia: seu cantionum sacrarum, liber secundus (Gradualia II) (1607)

for 4 voices:

##### Nativity

* Puer natus est nobis
* Viderunt omnes
* Dies sanctificatus
* Tui sunt coeli
* Viderunt omnes
* Hodie Christus natus est
* O admirabile commertium
* O magnum misterium
* Beata Virgo

##### Epiphany

* Ecce advenit Dominator Dominus
* Reges Tharsis
* Vidimus stellam
* Surge illuminare

##### Corpus Christi and The Blessed Sacrament

* Ab ortu solis
* Venite comedite
* Alleluia – Cognoverunt discipuli
* Ego sum panis vivus
* O quam suavis
* Jesu nostra redemptio
for 5 voices:

##### Easter

* Resurrexi
* Haec dies
* Victimae paschali
* Terra tremuit
* Pascha nostrum

##### Ascension

* Viri Galilei
* Alleluia – Ascendit Deus
* Dominus in Sina
* Ascendit Deus
* Psallite Domino
* O rex gloriae

##### Pentecost

* Spiritus Domini
* Alleluia – Emitte spiritum tuum
* Veni sancte spiritus
* Confirma hoc Deus
* Factus est repente
* Veni sancte spiritus
* Non vos relinquam orphanos
for 6 voices:

##### SS. Peter and Paul

* Nunc scio vere
* Constitues eos principes
* Solve jubente Deo
* Tu es Petrus
* Hodie Simon Petrus
* Tu es pastor ovium
* Quodcunque ligaveris

##### Miscellaneous

* Laudate Dominum
* Venite exultemus

#### Unpublished Latin settings

A majority of the unpublished works are found in private partbooks collections. A number of 5- and 6-voice works found in the Baldwin Partbooks are rendered incomplete, as the Tenor partbook has been lost.
for 3 voices:
* Sanctus (authenticity uncertain)
for 4 voices:
* Alleluia. Confitemini Domino
* Christe qui lux es
for 5 voices:
* Audivi vocem a5
* Benigne fac a5 [-1]
* Christe qui lux es
* Decantabat populus (authenticity uncertain)
* De lamentatione Jeremiæ prophetæ [-1]
* Domine Deus omnipotens
* Domine exaudi orationem
* Ne perdas cum impiis
* Omni tempore benedic Deum
* Peccavi super numerum
* Petrus beatus
* Reges Tharsis (authenticity uncertain)
* Sacris solemnuis (authenticity uncertain)
* Vide Domine quoniam tribulor (authenticity uncertain)
for 6 voices:
* Circumspice Jerusalem - Ecce enim veniunt
* Deus in adjutorium [-1]
* Domine ante te [-1]
* O salutaris hostia
for 8 voices:
* Ad Dominum cum tribularer
* Quomodo cantabimus
for 9 voices:
* Domine quis habitabit
Consort song:
* Quis me statim

### English music
#### Psalmes, sonnets, and songs of sadness 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
* Though 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)

for 3 voices:
* Lord in thy rage
* Right blest are they
* Lord in thy wrath correct me not
* O God which art most merciful
* Lord hear my prayer
* From depth of sin
* Attend mine humble prayer
* Susanna fair
* The nightingale
* When younglings first on Cupid fix their sight – But when by proof
* Upon a summer's day – Then for a boat
* The greedy hawk
for 4 voices:
* Is Love a boy? – Boy pity me
* Wounded I am – Yet of us twain
* From Cytheron the warlike boy is fled – There careless thoughts are freed – If Love be just
* O Lord my God
* While that the sun
* Rejoice rejoice [Chorus of From virgin's womb]
* Cast off all doubtful care [Chorus of An earthly tree]
for 5 voices:
* Weeping full sore
* Penelope that longed for the sight
* Compel the hawk
* See those sweet eyes
* When I was otherwise
* When first by force
* I thought that Love had been a boy
* O dear life
* Love would discharge
* From virgin's womb
* Of gold all burnished – Her breath is more sweet
for 6 voices:
* Behold how good a thing – And as the pleasant morning dew
* An earthly tree an heavenly fruit
* Who made thee, Hob, forsake the plough
* And think ye Nymphs to scorn at love – Love is a fit of pleasure
* If in thine heart
* Unto the hills mine eyes I lift
* Christ rising again – Christ is risen again

#### The first sett, of Italian madrigalls Englished (1590)

for 6 voices:
* This sweet and merry month of May

#### Psalmes, songs, and sonnets (1611)

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

#### Teares or Lamentacions of a Sorrowfull Soule (1614)

for 4 voices:
* Look down, O Lord, on me a poor man
* Be unto me, O Lord, a tower of strength
for 5 voices:
* I laid down to rest and sleep
* Come help O God

#### Unpublished English settings
##### Services

Byrd wrote at least five services.
* Short ('First') Service, for 6 voices
* Venite
* Te Deum
* Benedictus
* Kyrie
* Creed
* Magnificat
* Nunc Dimittis
* Second Service, for 5 voices
* Magnificat
* Nunc Dimittis
* Third Service, for 5 voices
* Magnificat
* Nunc Dimittis
* Great Service, for 10 voices
* Venite
* Te Deum
* Benedictus
* Kyrie
* Creed
* Magnificat
* Nunc Dimittis
* Short Morning Service (fragment)

##### Full anthems

* Arise O Lord (6vv)
* Exalt thyself O God (6vv)
* How long shall mine enemies triumph? (5vv)
* O God the proud are risen (6vv)
* O God whom our offences have displeased (5vv)
* O Lord make thy servant Elizabeth (6vv)
* O praise our Lord (5vv)
* Out of the deep (6vv)
* Prevent us O Lord (5vv)
* Save me O God (5vv) (authenticity uncertain)
* Sing joyfully (6vv)

##### Verse anthems

* Alack when I look back
* Behold O God the sad and heavy case
* Christ rising again/Christ is risen
* Hear my prayer O Lord
* O Lord rebuke me not
* Thou God that guid'st

##### Consort songs

* An aged dame
* Ah golden hairs
* As Cæsar wept
* Blame I confess
* Come pretty babe
* Content is rich
* Crowned with flowers and lilies
* Delight is dead
* E'en as the seas
* Fair Britain isle
* Have mercy on us Lord
* He that all earthly pleasure scorns
* In angel's weed
* I will not say
* The Lord is only my support
* Lord to thee I make my moan
* The man is blest
* Mount Hope
* My freedom
* My mistress had a little dog
* O God but God
* O Lord bow down
* O Lord how vain
* O Lord within thy tabernacle
* O that we woeful wretches
* Out of the orient crystal skies
* Rejoice unto the Lord
* Sith death at length
* Sith that the tree
* Though I be brown
* Thou poets' friend
* Triumph with pleasant melody
* Truce for a time
* Truth at the first
* What steps of strife
* Where the blind
* While Phœbus used to dwell
* With lilies white
* Wretched Albinus
* Ye sacred muses

## Keyboard works

BK numbers refer to Musica Britannica: William Byrd Keyboard Music, ed. Alan Brown (London: Stainer & Bell, 2 vols, 1969/71)
* My Ladye Nevells Booke (1591)
* My Ladye Nevells Grownde, BK57
* Qui Passe; for my Ladye Nevell, BK19
* The Marche before the Battell, BK93
* The Battell, BK94: The souldiers sommons; The marche of footemen; The marche of horsmen; The trumpets; 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, BK95
* The Barleye Breake, BK92
* A Galliards Gygge, BK18
* The Huntes upp, BK40
* Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La, BK64
* The Firste Pavian, BK29a
* The Galliarde to the Firste Pavian, BK29b
* The Seconde Pavian, BK71a
* The Galliarde to the Seconde Pavian, BK71b
* The Third Pavian, BK14a
* The Galliarde to the Third Pavian, BK14b
* The Fourth Pavian, BK30a
* The Galliarde to the Fourth Pavian, BK30b
* The Fifte Pavian, BK31a
* The Galliarde to the Fifte Pavian, BK31b
* Pavana the Sixte; Kinbrugh Goodd, BK32a
* The Galliarde to the Sixte Pavian, BK32b
* The Seventh Pavian, BK74
* The Eighte Pavian, BK17
* The Passinge Mesures; the Nynthe Pavian, BK2a
* The Galliarde to the Nynthe Pavian, BK2b
* A Voluntarie; for my Ladye Nevell, BK61
* Will Yow Walke the Woods soe Wylde, BK85
* The Maidens Songe, BK82
* A Lesson of voluntarie, BK26
* The Second Grownde, BK42
* Have with Yow to Walsingame, BK8
* All in a Garden Grine, BK56
* Lord Willobies Welcome Home, BK7
* The Carmans Whistle, BK36
* Hughe Ashtons Grownde, BK20
* A Fancie, for my Ladye Nevell, BK25
* Sellingers Rownde, BK84
* Munsers Almaine (II), BK88
* The Tennthe Pavian; Mr. W. Peter, BK3a
* The Galliarde to the Tennthe Pavian, BK3b
* A Fancie, BK46
* A Voluntarie, BK27
* 69 pieces in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
* 8 pieces in Parthenia
* The French coranto, BK21a
* The second French coranto, BK21b
* The 3rd French coranto, BK21c
* A Horne Pipe, BK39
* Miserere I, BK66
* Miserere II, BK67
* Parludam, BK115
* A Pavin, BK33a
* Galliard, BK33b
* Eccho paven, BK114a
* The Galliard, BK114b
* A Preludium, BK116
* Christe qui lux, BK121
* Gloria tibi trinitas, BK50
* A Verse of Two Parts, BK28
* A Ground, BK43
* A Grounde, BK9
* Clarifica me pater a 2, BK47
* Salvator mundi I, BK68
* Salvator mundi II, BK69
* Ut, Re, Mee, Fa, Sol, La, The playnesong Breifs To Be played By a second person, BK58
* Go from my window, BK79
* A Ground, BK86
* O quam gloriosum est regnum
* If my complaints, or Pyper's Galliard, BK118
* A Pavion, BK23a
* The Galliard, BK23b
* Pavin, BK76
* A Galliard, BK77
* An Alman, BK117
* Paven, BK73a
* Galiard, BK73b
* A Pavyn, BK16a
* A Galliard, BK16b
* A Pavion, BK72a
* The Galliard to it, BK72b

## Consort works (unpublished)

* 3 fantasias, 3vv
* 4 fantasias, 4vv
* Prelude and ground, 5vv
* Fantasia, 5vv ('2 parts in 1')
* Browning, 5vv
* Pavan, 5vv
* 2 fantasias, 6vv
* Pavan and galliard, 6vv

## 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 (TTTB) – A joint work with John Sheppard and William Mundy.