Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by W. Byrd

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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 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 (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER FRE DUT ENG
• 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] (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER LAT DUT ENG FIN 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] (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) LAT GER FIN FRE DUT ENG
• no. 6. Nunc dimittis (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Psalms, Songs, and Sonnets
• Crownèd with flowers I saw fair Amaryllis (Text: Anonymous)
• Wedded to will is witless (Text: Anonymous)
• In crystal towers (Text: Anonymous)
• Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs of Sadness and Piety
• Though Amaryllis dance in green (Text: Anonymous)
• My mind to me a kingdom is (Text: Anonymous)
• I joy not in no earthly bliss (Text: Anonymous)
• What pleasure have great princes (Text: Anonymous)
• Farewell, false Love, the oracle of lies (Text: Anonymous)
• The match that's made for just and true respects (Text: Anonymous)
• If women could be fair and never fond (Text: Anonymous)
• 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 GER
• Beata Viscera ENG 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) ENG 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) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) 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) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) FIN FRE GER DUT ENG LAT
• 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) ENG
• 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 (in Songs of sundrie natures) (Text: Anonymous)
• Susanna fair (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) ENG
• 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) (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) GER FRE FIN LAT DUT 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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