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*[[Libera me, Domine, et pone me (William Byrd)|<i>Libera me, Domine, et pone me</i>]]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(&nbsp;[http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sheet/byrd-lib.pdf http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/84/Icon_pdf.gif]&nbsp;[http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sound/byrd-lib.mid http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/81/Icon_snd.gif]&nbsp;[http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/source/byrd-lib.sib Sibelius 2]&nbsp;)
*[[Libera me, Domine, et pone me (William Byrd)|<i>Libera me, Domine, et pone me</i>]]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(&nbsp;[http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sheet/byrd-lib.pdf http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/84/Icon_pdf.gif]&nbsp;[http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sound/byrd-lib.mid http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/81/Icon_snd.gif]&nbsp;[http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/source/byrd-lib.sib Sibelius 2]&nbsp;)
*[[Lullaby my sweet little baby (William Byrd)|<i>Lullaby my sweet little baby</i>]]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(&nbsp;[http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sheet/byrd-lul.pdf http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/84/Icon_pdf.gif]&nbsp;[http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sound/byrd-lul.mid http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/81/Icon_snd.gif]&nbsp;[http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/source/byrd-lul.sib Sibelius 2]&nbsp;)


*[[Nunc dimittis (Gradualia) (William Byrd)|<i>Lumen ad revelationem gentium</i>]]
*[[Nunc dimittis (Gradualia) (William Byrd)|<i>Lumen ad revelationem gentium</i>]]

Revision as of 03:36, 25 May 2006

Aliases: If his surviving signatures are a representative sample, the composer's preferred spelling of his own name was "Byrde", although on his own publications it also appears as Bird and Byrd. His contemporaries knew him indiscriminately as Byrd(e), Bird(e) and even Burd(e).

Life

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Born: c.1540

Died: 4 July 1623

William Byrd (1539/40 – July 4, 1623) was one of the most celebrated English composers in the Renaissance. His entire life was marked by contradictions, and as a true Renaissance man he cannot be easily categorised. He lived until well into the seventeenth century without writing music in the new Baroque fashion, but his superbly constructed keyboard works marked the beginning of the Baroque organ and harpsichord style. Byrd's life is interesting because of his Roman Catholic sympathies combined with his work in the court of the Anglican Queen Elizabeth I. He composed much music, if intermittently, for the Roman Catholic liturgy, particularly in his later years; the two volumes of Gradualia form a prime example. Possibly as a result of this he did not receive widespread recognition in his lifetime, but was very well respected among the Roman Catholic gentry. In the anti-Catholic frenzy following the 1605 Gunpowder Plot, the first volume of the Gradualia, printed by Thomas East in 1605, was banned in England under penalty of imprisonment as indeed was all of his Catholic music; however his Anglican music— such as the Short Service, and the Responses— has been sung in English cathedrals uninterrupted for the past four centuries.

Biography

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List of choral works

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Sacred Music

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English

  • Great Service, The (no sheet music yet)
    • Venite
    • Te Deum
    • Benedictus
    • Creed
    • Magnificat
    • Nunc dimittis

Secular Music

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