Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by W. Byrd

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William Byrd (1542?3? - 1623)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.

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
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 GER ENG FRE DUT
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 ENG
no. 20b. Te lucis ante terminum, composed by Thomas Tallis 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 DUT FIN ENG FRE LAT
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] LAT DUT FRE FIN ENG GER
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
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 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT
Emendemus in melius (in Cantiones Sacrae) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) DUT ENG
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) DUT ENG FRE GER
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) DUT FIN FRE ENG LAT GER
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) LAT DUT FIN FRE ENG GER
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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