Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by W. Byrd

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William Byrd (1542?3? - 1623)

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Cantiones Sacrae [multi-composer]

no. 1. Salvator mundi, composed by Thomas Tallis (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG
no. 2. Absterge Domine, composed by Thomas Tallis (Text: Anonymous) ENG
no. 3. In manus tuas, composed by Thomas Tallis (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG
no. 4. Emendemus in melius, composed by William Byrd (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG
no. 5. Libera me, Domine, et pone, composed by William Byrd (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
no. 6. Peccantem me quotidie, composed by William Byrd (Text: Roland de Lassus) ENG GER
no. 7. Mihi autem nimis, composed by Thomas Tallis (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG GER
no. 8. O nata lux, composed by Thomas Tallis (Text: Anonymous) ENG
no. 9. O sacrum convivium, composed by Thomas Tallis (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG GER ITA
no. 10. Aspice Domine quia facta est, composed by William Byrd (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG
no. 11. Attolite portas, composed by William Byrd ENG FRE GER
no. 12. O lux beata Trinitas, composed by William Byrd (Text: Anonymous) ENG GER
no. 13. Derelinquant impius, composed by Thomas Tallis (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
no. 14. Dum transisset sabbatum, composed by Thomas Tallis (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
no. 15. Honor virtus et potestas, composed by Thomas Tallis (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
no. 16. Sermone blando, composed by Thomas Tallis (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
no. 17. Laudate pueri Dominum [multi-text setting], composed by William Byrd FRE ENG DUT GER
no. 18. Memento homo, composed by William Byrd (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
no. 19. Siderum rector, composed by William Byrd (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 20a. Te lucis ante terminum, composed by Thomas Tallis (Text: Anonymous) ENG
no. 20b. Te lucis ante terminum, composed by Thomas Tallis (Text: Anonymous) ENG
no. 21. Salvator mundi, composed by Thomas Tallis (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG
no. 22. Candidi facti sunt, composed by Thomas Tallis (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
no. 23. Da mihi auxilium, composed by William Byrd (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 24. Domine secundum actum meum, composed by William Byrd (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
no. 25. Diliges Dominum, composed by William Byrd (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
no. 26. In ieunio et fletu, composed by Thomas Tallis (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
no. 27. Suscipe quaeso Domine, composed by William Byrd (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
no. 28. Si enim iniquitates, composed by William Byrd (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
no. 29. Miserere mihi Domine, composed by William Byrd (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
no. 30. Tribue, Domine, composed by William Byrd (Text: Anonymous) ENG
no. 31. Te deprecor, composed by William Byrd (Text: Anonymous) ENG
no. 32. Gloria Patri, qui creavit, composed by William Byrd (Text: Anonymous) ENG
no. 33. Libera me Domine de morte, composed by Thomas Tallis (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) CAT DUT ENG FRE GER
no. 34. Miserere nostri, Domine, composed by Thomas Tallis (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG

Great Service [oratorio]

no. 1. Venite [multi-text setting] GER FIN DUT LAT ENG FRE
no. 2. Te Deum (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT
no. 3. Benedictus (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) LAT
no. 4. Creed (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT FRE
no. 5. Magnificat [multi-text setting] DUT GER FIN LAT ENG FRE
no. 6. Nunc dimittis (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts)

Psalms, Songs, and Sonnets

no. ?. Crownèd with flowers I saw fair Amaryllis (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. Wedded to will is witless (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. In crystal towers (Text: Anonymous)

Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs of Sadness and Piety

no. ?. Though Amaryllis dance in green (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. My mind to me a kingdom is (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. I joy not in no earthly bliss (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. What pleasure have great princes (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. Farewell, false Love, the oracle of lies (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. The match that's made for just and true respects (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. If women could be fair and never fond (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. Who likes to love, let him take heed! (Text: Anonymous)

Songs of sundrie natures

no. 1. Lord in thy rage (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE GER
no. 2. Right blest are they (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 3. Lord in thy wrath correct me not (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 4. O God which art most merciful (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT FIN FRE GER SPA
no. 5. Lord hear my prayer (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
no. 6. From depth of sin (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts) LAT
no. 7. Attend mine humble prayer (Text: William Byrd after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE POL
no. 8. Susanna fair (Text: Anonymous)
no. 9. The nightingale (Text: Anonymous)
no. 10. When younglings first (Text: Anonymous)
no. 11. But when by proof (Text: Anonymous)
no. 12. Upon a Summer's day (Text: Anonymous)
no. 13. Then for a boat (Text: Anonymous)
no. 14. The greedy Hawk (Text: Anonymous)
no. 15. Is Love a boy? (Text: Anonymous)
no. 16. Boy pity me (Text: Anonymous)
no. 17. Wounded I am (Text: Anonymous)
no. 18. Yet of us twain (Text: Anonymous)
no. 19. From Citheron the warlike boy is fled (Text: Anonymous)
no. 20. There careless thoughts are freed (Text: Anonymous)
no. 21. If Love be just (Text: Anonymous)
no. 22. O Lord my God (Text: Anonymous)
no. 23. While that the Sun (Text: Anonymous) FRE
no. 24. Rejoice rejoice (Text: Anonymous)
no. 25. Cast off all doubtful care (Text: Anonymous)
no. 26. Weeping full sore (Text: Anonymous)
no. 27. Penelope that longed for the sight (Text: Anonymous)
no. 28. Compel the Hawk to sit (Text: Thomas Churchyard)
no. 29. See those sweet eyes (Text: Anonymous)
no. 30. When I was otherwise (Text: Anonymous)
no. 31. When first by force (Text: Anonymous)
no. 32. I thought that love had been a boy (Text: Anonymous)
no. 33. O dear life (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir)
no. 34. Love would discharge (Text: Anonymous)
no. 35. From virgin's womb (Text: Anonymous)
no. 36. Of gold all burnished (Text: Anonymous)
no. 37. Her breath is more sweet (Text: Anonymous)
no. 38. Behold how good a thing (Text: Anonymous)
no. 39. And as the pleasant morning dew (Text: Anonymous)
no. 40. An earthly tree an heavenly fruit (Text: Anonymous)
no. 41. Who made thee, Hob, forsake the Plough (Text: Anonymous)
no. 42. And think ye Nymphs to scorn at love (Text: Anonymous)
no. 43. Love is a fit of pleasure (Text: Anonymous)
no. 44. If in thine heart (Text: Anonymous)
no. 45. Unto the hills mine eyes I lift (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT FRE GER GER GER
no. 46. Christ rising again (Text: Anonymous)
no. 47. Christ is risen again (Text: Anonymous)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

And as the pleasant morning dew (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
And think ye Nymphs to scorn at love (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
An earthly tree an heavenly fruit (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
Aspice Domine quia facta est (in Cantiones Sacrae) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG
Attend mine humble prayer (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: William Byrd after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE POL
Attolite portas (in Cantiones Sacrae) ENG FRE GER
Ave verum corpus (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG FIN FRE
Beata Viscera FRE
Behold how good a thing (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
Benedictus (in Great Service) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) LAT
Be unto me (Text: William Leighton, Sir)
Boy pity me (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
But when by proof (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
Cast off all doubtful care (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
Christ is risen again (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
Christ rising again (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
Come help O God (Text: William Leighton, Sir)
Compel the Hawk to sit (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Thomas Churchyard)
Cradle song
Creed (in Great Service) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT FRE
Crownèd with flowers I saw fair Amaryllis (in Psalms, Songs, and Sonnets) (Text: Anonymous)
Da mihi auxilium (in Cantiones Sacrae) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Diliges Dominum (in Cantiones Sacrae) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Domine secundum actum meum (in Cantiones Sacrae) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Emendemus in melius (in Cantiones Sacrae) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG
Emendemus in melius (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT
Farewell, false Love, the oracle of lies (in Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs of Sadness and Piety) (Text: Anonymous)
From Citheron the warlike boy is fled (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
From depth of sin (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts) LAT
From virgin's womb (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
Gloria Patri, qui creavit (in Cantiones Sacrae) (Text: Anonymous) ENG
Her breath is more sweet (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
Hey ho, to the greenwood (Text: Anonymous)
If in thine heart (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
If Love be just (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
If women could be fair and never fond (in Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs of Sadness and Piety) (Text: Anonymous)
I joy not in no earthly bliss (in Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs of Sadness and Piety) (Text: Anonymous)
I laid me down (Text: William Leighton, Sir)
In crystal towers (in Psalms, Songs, and Sonnets) (Text: Anonymous)
Infelix ego (Text: Girolamo Maria Francesco Matteo Savonarola) FIN
Is Love a boy? (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
I thought that love had been a boy (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
Justorum animae ENG ENG GER GER
Laetentur coeli
Laudate pueri Dominum [multi-text setting] (in Cantiones Sacrae) GER FRE ENG DUT
Libera me, Domine, et pone (in Cantiones Sacrae) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Look down O Lord (Text: William Leighton, Sir)
Lord hear my prayer (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Lord in thy rage (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts) FRE GER
Lord in thy wrath correct me not (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Love is a fit of pleasure (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
Love would discharge (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
Lullaby, my sweet little baby (Text: Anonymous)
Magnificat [multi-text setting] (in Great Service) FIN LAT ENG FRE GER DUT
Memento homo (in Cantiones Sacrae) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Miserere mihi Domine (in Cantiones Sacrae) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
My mind to me a kingdom is (in Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs of Sadness and Piety) (Text: Anonymous)
My sweet little darling (Text: Anonymous)
Ne irascaris, Domine (Text: Anonymous)
Nunc dimittis (in Great Service) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
O dear life (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir)
Of gold all burnished (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
O God, the proud are risen (Text: Anonymous)
O God which art most merciful (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT FIN FRE GER SPA
O Lord, how vain are all our frail delights (Text: Philip Sidney, Sir) GER
O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth (Text: Anonymous)
O Lord my God (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
O lux beata Trinitas (in Cantiones Sacrae) (Text: Anonymous) ENG GER
Peccantem me quotidie (in Cantiones Sacrae) (Text: Roland de Lassus) ENG GER
Penelope that longed for the sight (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
Prevent us, O Lord (Text: Anonymous)
Rejoice rejoice (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
Responsum acceperat Simeon (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Right blest are they (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
See those sweet eyes (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
Siderum rector (in Cantiones Sacrae) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
Si enim iniquitates (in Cantiones Sacrae) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Sing joyfully unto God (Text: Anonymous)
Susanna fair (Text: Anonymous)
Susanna fair (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
Suscipe quaeso Domine (in Cantiones Sacrae) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) ENG
Te deprecor (in Cantiones Sacrae) (Text: Anonymous) ENG
Te Deum (in Great Service) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT
The greedy Hawk (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
The match that's made for just and true respects (in Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs of Sadness and Piety) (Text: Anonymous)
Then for a boat (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
The nightingale (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
There careless thoughts are freed (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
Though Amaryllis dance in green (in Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs of Sadness and Piety) (Text: Anonymous)
Tribue, Domine (in Cantiones Sacrae) (Text: Anonymous) ENG
Tristitia et anxietas (Text: Anonymous)
Unto the hills mine eyes I lift (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous after Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT FRE GER GER GER
Upon a Summer's day (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
Venite [multi-text setting] (in Great Service) DUT GER LAT FIN FRE ENG
Vigilate (Text: Anonymous) FRE
Wedded to will is witless (in Psalms, Songs, and Sonnets) (Text: Anonymous)
Weeping full sore (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
What pleasure have great princes (in Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs of Sadness and Piety) (Text: Anonymous)
When first by force (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
When I was otherwise (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
When younglings first (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
While that the Sun (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous) FRE
Who likes to love, let him take heed! (in Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs of Sadness and Piety) (Text: Anonymous)
Who made thee, Hob, forsake the Plough (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
Wounded I am (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
Ye sacred Muses
Yet of us twain (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)

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