Mass for Three voices (c. 1593–4)
Mass for Four Voices (c. 1592–3)
Mass for Five voices (c. 1594–5)
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
(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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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.
In exitu Israel á 4 (SSAT) – A joint work with John Sheppard and William Mundy.
