Dow Partbooks
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The Dow Partbooks is a collection of five partbooks in Oxford around 1580. The collection includes choral and also instrumental pieces. Robert Dow was a trained calligrapher and the books are unusually easy to read among Tudor manuscripts.
Publication date and place: 1580 in Oxford. – Manuscript
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Contents
- N.B. pieces are numbered sequentially in the table above, rather than following the numbering of the MS, which contains some errors and is inconsistent between the partbooks.
- Pieces without links to other pages on this site are instrumental only.
Works at CPDL
| Title | Composer | No. | Genre | Subgenre | Vo. | Voices |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A doleful deadly pang | Nicholas Strogers | 108 | Secular | Consort songs | 1 | |
| Ad te clamamus (Salve regina) | Christopher Tye | 14 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | TTBBB |
| Ah, alas, you salt sea gods | Richard Farrant | 106-107 | Secular | Madrigals | 1 | Solo Soprano |
| Angelus ad pastores ait | Orlando di Lasso | 17 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Apparebit in finem | William Byrd | 32 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Appropinquet deprecatio mea | Robert White | 28 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
| Ascendo ad patrem meum | Jean Maillard | 75 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Audivi vocem | William Byrd | 33 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
| Ave Maria | Robert Parsons | 48 | Sacred | Motets | 5vv or 6 | ATTBB, SAATB, SAATBB |
| Blessed is he that fears the Lord | William Byrd | 127 | Sacred | Sacred songs | 5 | SATTB |
| Candidi facti sunt | Thomas Tallis | 21 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATBBB,SATTB,SATBB |
| Care for thy soul | William Byrd | 71 | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SAATB |
| Christe qui lux es et dies III | Robert White | 5 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SSATB |
| Christe qui lux es et dies II | Robert White | 4 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Christe qui lux es et dies IV | Robert White | 38 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATBB |
| Christe qui lux es et dies I | Robert White | 3 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SAATB |
| Christe qui lux es et dies a 5 | William Byrd | 45 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Christus resurgens | John Tailer | 29 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATBBB |
| Come Holy Ghost | Anonymous | 100 | Sacred | Consort songs | 5 | |
| Come to me grief for ever | William Byrd | 61 | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SSATB |
| Come tread the paths | Anonymous | 122 | Secular | Consort songs | 1 | |
| Deus venerunt gentes - Posuerunt morticinia - Effuderunt sanguinem - Facti sumus opprobrium | William Byrd | 39;44;47 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
| Domine exaudi orationem - Et non intres in judicium | William Byrd | 12 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
| Domine praestolamur - Veni Domine noli tardare | William Byrd | 13 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
| Domine tu jurasti | William Byrd | 40 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SAATB |
| Dum transisset Sabbatum | Roose | 49 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Dum transisset Sabbatum I | John Taverner | 26 | Sacred | Motets | 4-5 | SATBB, TTBB |
| Dum transisset Sabbatum a 5 | Robert Johnson | 22 | Sacred | Responsories | 5 | SATBB |
| Enforced by love and fear | Robert Parsons | 119 | Secular | Madrigals | 1 | Solo Countertenor |
| Esurientes implevit bonis | John Sheppard | 16 | Sacred | Vespers | 5 | AATBB |
| Even from the depth | William Byrd | 95 | Sacred | Sacred songs | 5 | ATTBB |
| Exaudiat te Dominus | Robert White | 23 | Sacred | Motets | 8 | SSAATTBB |
| Exsurge Domine | William Byrd | 41 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Fac cum servo tuo | William Byrd | 36 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Hey down, down | Anonymous | 134 | Secular | Canons | 4 | SBBB |
| How long shall mine enemies | William Byrd | 59 | Sacred | Anthems | 5 | ATTBB |
| How shall a young man | William Byrd | 130 | Sacred Sacred |
Partsongs Consort songs |
5 | SATTB |
| I joy not in no earthly bliss | William Byrd | 68 | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SATTB |
| If that a sinner's sighs | William Byrd | 92 | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SATTB |
| If women could be fair | William Byrd | 93 | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | ATTBB |
| In fields abroad | William Byrd | 62 | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SATTB |
| In resurrectione tua | William Byrd | 34 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Justus es Domine | Robert White | 8 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATBB |
| La Virginella | William Byrd | 67 | Secular | Madrigals | 5 | SATTB |
| Laetentur coeli - Orietur in diebus | William Byrd | 46 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB,SATBB |
| Lamentations a 5 | Robert White | 1 | Sacred | Lamentations | 5 | SATBB |
| Lord in thy wrath reprove me not | William Byrd | 70 | Sacred | Sacred songs | 5 | SAATB |
| Lulla, lullaby, my sweet little baby | William Byrd | 114-115 | Sacred | Partsongs | 5 | SAATB |
| Manus tuae fecerunt me | Robert White | 6 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
| Mirabile mysterium | Alfonso Ferrabosco I | 51 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Miserere mei, Deus | William Byrd | 52 | Sacred | Motets | ||
| Miserere mei Deus | Robert White | 2 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
| My mind to me a kingdom is | William Byrd | 117 | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SAATB |
| Ne irascaris Domine - Civitas sancti tui | William Byrd | 9 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB,SATTB |
| O Domine adjuva me | William Byrd | 10 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
| O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth | William Byrd | 57 | Sacred | Anthems | 6 | SAATTB,ATTBBB |
| O bone Jesu | Robert Parsons | 53 | Sacred | Motets | 6 | AATBBB |
| O quam gloriosum est regnum - Benedictio et claritas | William Byrd | 30 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SSATB |
| O sacrum convivium | Thomas Tallis | 42 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
| O salutaris hostia | Thomas Tallis | 19 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATBB |
| O that most rare breast | William Byrd | 60 | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SATTB |
| Omnes gentes, plaudite manibus | Christopher Tye | 15 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SAATB,SATBB |
| Portio mea Domine | Robert White | 7 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Prevent us, O Lord | William Byrd | 58 | Sacred | Anthems | 4 5 |
SATB SAATB |
| Prostrate O Lord I lie | William Byrd | 94 | Sacred | Partsongs | 5 | SATBB |
| Retribue servo tuo | Robert Parsons | 35 | Sacred | Motets | 7 | SSAATBB, AATTBBB |
| Salvator mundi II | Thomas Tallis | 43 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB, SATTB |
| Salvator mundi I | Thomas Tallis | 20 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
| Sive vigilem | William Mundy | 37 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
| Susanna fair (1588) | William Byrd | 64 | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SATTB |
| Susanne un jour | Orlando di Lasso | 77 | Secular | Chansons | 5 | SATTB |
| The Lord bless us and keep us | Robert White | 56 | Sacred | Anthems | 5 | SAATB |
| Though Amarillis dance in green | William Byrd | 131 | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SAATB |
| Tribulatio proxima est - Contumelias et terrores | William Byrd | 27 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
| Tribulationes civitatum - Timor et hebetudo - Nos enim pro peccatis | William Byrd | 11 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB, SATTB |
| Tristitia et anxietas - Sed tu Domine | William Byrd | 31 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
| Veni in hortum meum | Orlando di Lasso | 18 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Vestigia mea dirige | Nathaniel Giles | 54 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SAATB |
| When I was otherwise | William Byrd | 96 | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SATTB |
| Where fancy fond | William Byrd | 63 | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SATTB |
| Who likes to love | William Byrd | 118 | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SATTB |
| Why do I use my paper, ink and pen? | William Byrd | 66 | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SAATB |
External links
- High quality, fully zoomable images of the Dow Partbooks are available at the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM) (free registration required):
View the Wikipedia article on Dow Partbooks.