The Baldwin Partbooks
General information
Title: The Baldwin Partbooks
Compiler – Copyist: John Baldwin (ca. 1560-1615)
Publication date and place: ca. 1575 – 1581, manuscript at Christ Church, Oxford. – Manuscript
Description: These partbooks were copied and originally owned by John Baldwin (1560-1615). Baldwin was a singer in St George’s Chapel Windsor from 1575 to 1600, by which time he had transferred to the Chapel Royal. He was also a composer (including several pieces for viol consort and a song for Elizabeth I’s visit to the Earl of Hertford’s residence at Elvetham in 1591) and the copyist of several other extant music manuscripts from this period including his ‘Commonplace book’ (British Library: R.M.24.d.2) and ‘My Ladye Nevells Booke’ (British Library: MS Mus. 1591), containing much of William Byrd’s keyboard music. Baldwin’s partbooks are a major source for Tudor Church Music from not only the reign of Elizabeth (when Baldwin was copying), but also from earlier periods stretching back before the Reformation. Originally a set of six books each containing a different voice part, the tenor partbook is now missing.
Shelf numbers: 979 – Superius; 980 – Discantus; 981 – Contratenor; 982 – Sextapars; 983 – Bassus.
External websites:
References
- Mateer, David. 1986. Oxford, Christ Church Music MSS 984-8: An index and commentary. Royal Music Association Research Chronicle 20:1-18.
List of works
Works at CPDL
| Title | Composer | No. | Lyricist | Genre | Subgenre | Language | Vo. | Voices |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loquebantur variis linguis | Thomas Tallis | 106 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 7 | SSATTBB | |
| Ne irascaris Domine - Civitas sancti tui | William Byrd | 59 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | ATTBB,SATTB | |
| Dum transisset Sabbatum | Thomas Tallis | 21 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SSATT | |
| O salutaris hostia a 6 | William Byrd | 141 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | SAATTB | |
| Apparebit in finem | William Byrd | 10 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SATTB | |
| Memento Domine | William Byrd | 15 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | ATTBB | |
| Aspice Domine de sede - Respice Domine | William Byrd | 61 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SATTB | |
| O Domine adjuva me | William Byrd | 16 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | ATTBB | |
| Circumdederunt me | William Byrd | 37 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | ATTBB | |
| O quam gloriosum est regnum - Benedictio et claritas | William Byrd | 9 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SSATB | |
| Descendit de coelis - Et exivit per auream portam | William Byrd | 142 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | ATTBBB | |
| Levemus corda | William Byrd | 13 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | ATTBB | |
| Domine praestolamur - Veni Domine noli tardare | William Byrd | 58 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | ATTBB | |
| Cunctis diebus | William Byrd | 68 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Exsurge Domine | William Byrd | 35 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SATTB | |
| Domine exaudi orationem - Et non intres in judicium | William Byrd | 17 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | ATTBB | |
| Infelix ego - Quid igitur faciam? - Ad te igitur | William Byrd | 138 | Girolamo Savonarola | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | SATTBB |
| Tribulationes civitatum - Timor et hebetudo - Nos enim pro peccatis | William Byrd | 60 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | ATTBB, SATTB | |
| Tristitia et anxietas - Sed tu Domine | William Byrd | 69 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | ATTBB | |
| Vide Domine afflictionem - Sed veni Domine | William Byrd | 31 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | ATTBB | |
| Credo quod redemptor meus vivit | Robert Parsons | 132 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | AATTBB | |
| Peccantem me quotidie | Robert Parsons | 74 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 4 | SAATB | |
| Iam Christus astra ascenderat | Robert Parsons | 153 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna | Robert Parsons | 89 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SAATB,ATTTB | |
| Domine, quis habitabit | Robert Parsons | 127 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | SSAATB | |
| Retribue servo tuo | Robert Parsons | 56 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 7 | SSAATBB, AATTBBB | |
| Reges Tharsis | John Sheppard | 97 | Sacred | Responsories | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Dum transisset Sabbatum I | John Taverner | 22 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 4-5 | SATBB, TTBB | |
| Ave Dei Patris Filia | John Taverner | 49 | Sacred | Votive antiphons | Latin | 5 | SATTB | |
| Regina caeli | Robert White | 44 | Sacred | Votive antiphons | Latin | 5 | TTBBB, TTTBB | |
| Videte miraculum | Thomas Tallis | 147 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | SSAATB, SATTBB | |
| Tota pulchra es | Robert White | 126 | Sacred | Votive antiphons | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Peccavimus cum patribus | Christopher Tye | 120 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 7 | SATTBBB | |
| Salvator mundi, Domine | John Sheppard | 151 | Sacred | Office hymns | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Media vita a 6 | John Sheppard | 118 | Sacred | Antiphons | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Gaude gloriosa Dei Mater | Thomas Tallis | 119 | Sacred | Anthems | Latin | 6vv | SATTBB | |
| Verbum caro | John Sheppard | 144 | Sacred | Responsories | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas | John Taverner | 133 | Sacred | Masses | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Christe Jesu, pastor bone | John Taverner | 51 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SATBB | |
| Christe qui lux es et dies III | Robert White | 76 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SSATB | |
| Adolescentulus sum ego | William Mundy | 125 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | SAATBB | |
| Ad te levavi oculos meos | Robert White | 100 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | SSAATB | |
| Gaude, gaude, gaude Maria | John Sheppard | 98 | Sacred | Responsories | Latin | 8 | SSAATTBB | |
| Libera nos, salva nos I | John Sheppard | 154 | Sacred | Antiphons | Latin | 7 | SSAATTB | |
| Filiae Hierusalem | John Sheppard | 149 | Sacred | Responsories | Latin | 6 | SSTTBB | |
| Laudem dicite Deo | John Sheppard | 7 | Sacred | Responsories | Latin | 5 | TTBBB | |
| Audivi vocem | William Byrd | 12 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | ATTBB | |
| Christe qui lux es et dies I | Robert White | 166 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SAATB | |
| Christe qui lux es et dies II | Robert White | 78 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SATTB | |
| Sive vigilem | William Mundy | 73 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | ATTBB | |
| Miserere mei Deus | Robert White | 71 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | ATTBB | |
| Manus tuae fecerunt me | Robert White | 63 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | ATTBB | |
| Lamentations a 5 | Robert White | 33 | Sacred | Lamentations | Latin | 5 | SATBB | |
| Portio mea Domine | Robert White | 55 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SATTB | |
| O bone Jesu | Robert Parsons | 54 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | AATBBB | |
| Adhaesit pavimento | William Mundy | 65 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | SSATBB | |
| Beati immaculati in via | William Mundy | 57 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SAATB,STTBB | |
| Justi in perpetuum vivent | John Sheppard | 90 | Sacred | Responsories | Latin | 5 | ATTBB,SAATB | |
| Libera nos, salva nos II | John Sheppard | 155 | Sacred | Antiphons | Latin | 7 | SSAATTB | |
| Ecce nunc benedicite | Anonymous | 102 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | SSATBB | |
| Confitebor tibi Domine | William Daman | 39 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SATTB | |
| Salvator mundi Domine | Thomas Tallis | 87 | Sacred | Office hymns | Latin | 5 | SATTB | |
| Quod chorus vatum | Thomas Tallis | 84 | Rabanus Maurus | Sacred | Office hymns | Latin | 5 | SATTB |
| Jesu salvator saeculi | Thomas Tallis | 86 | Sacred | Office hymns | Latin | 5 | SATTB | |
| Domine, quis habitabit | Thomas Tallis | 67 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | ATTBB, SAATB | |
| Laudate Dominum omnes gentes | Thomas Tallis | 40 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | ATTBB | |
| Domine ante te | William Byrd | 140 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | SSATTB | |
| Peccavi super numerum | William Byrd | 14 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SATTB | |
| Homo quidam | Thomas Tallis | 93 | Sacred | Responsories | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Memor esto | William Mundy | 72 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6-7 | SSAAATBB, SSAATBB | |
| Aedes nostra sancta | John Mundy | 32 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | STTBB | |
| In te Domine speravi | John Mundy | 53 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | ATTBB | |
| De Lamentatione | John Mundy | 167b | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SAATB | |
| Eructavit cor meum | William Mundy | 135 | Psalm 45 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | SATTBB |
| Ave Dei Patris Filia | Robert Fayrfax | 47 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SATTB | |
| Domine non est exaltatum | William Mundy | 130 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Reges Tharsis a 5 | William Byrd | 70 | Sacred | Responsories | Latin | 5 | SATBB | |
| O splendor gloriae | John Taverner | 29 | Sacred | Anthems | Latin | 5 | SSATB, SATTB | |
| O splendor gloriae | Christopher Tye | 29 | Sacred | Anthems | Latin | 5 | SSATB, SATTB | |
| Domine, non est exaltatum | Robert White | 129 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Salve intemerata | Thomas Tallis | 46 | Cuthbert Tunstall | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SATBB |
| Dum transisset sabbatum | John Mundy | 156 | Sacred | Responsories | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Mater Christi | John Taverner | 50 | Sacred | Latin | 5 | SATTB | ||
| Christi virgo dilectissima | John Sheppard | 95 | Sacred | Responsories | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Sancte Dei pretiose | John Sheppard | 92 | Sacred | Office hymns | Latin | 5 | AATTB | |
| Jesu salvator saeculi, verbum Patris | John Sheppard | 152 | Sacred | Office hymns | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Non conturbetur (1st setting) | John Sheppard | 94 | John 14:1,16,17; 16:22 | Sacred | Responsories | Latin | 6 | SATTBB |
| Non conturbetur (2nd setting) | John Sheppard | 96 | Sacred | Responsories | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Beata nobis gaudia | John Sheppard | 107 | Sacred | Office hymns | Latin | 7 | SATTBBB | |
| Quemadmodum | John Taverner | 160 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Maria virgo sanctissima | William Mundy | 137 | Sacred | Votive antiphons | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Domine quis habitabit | William Mundy | 128 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | SSTTBB | |
| Veni Creator Spiritus | William Mundy | 77 | Sacred | Hymns | Latin | 5 | STTBB,SAATB | |
| Dum transisset | Christian Hollander | 28 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SATTB | |
| Omnis caro gramen sit | William Daman | 105 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | ATTTBB | |
| Videte miraculum | William Mundy | 75 | Sacred | Responsories | Latin | 5 | STTBB | |
| A solis ortus cardine | William Mundy | 88 | Sacred | Office hymns | Latin | 5 | SATTB | |
| Lamentations a 6 | Robert White | 168b | Sacred | Lamentations | Latin | 6 | SSAATB | |
| Domine quis habitabit III | Robert White | 134 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | SSAABB,AATTBB | |
| Exsurge Domine | John Wood | 30 | Wolfgang Capito | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SATBB |
| Gaude Plurimum | John Taverner | 48 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SATTB | |
| Sacris solemniis | William Byrd | 20 | Sacred | Office hymns | Latin | 5 | STTBB | |
| Iam Christus astra ascenderat | Thomas Tallis | 85 | Sacred | Office hymns | Latin | 5 | SATTB | |
| Martyr Dei qui unicum | John Sheppard | 116 | Sacred | Office hymns | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Te Deum | John Taverner | 26 | Sacred | Hymns | Latin | 5 | TTTBB | |
| Te Deum | John Sheppard | 110 | Sacred | Hymns | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Kyrie & Haec dies | John Sheppard | 146 | Sacred | Vespers | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Domine in virtute tua (1st setting) | Robert Johnson | 5 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SATTB | |
| Domine quis habitabit I | Robert White | 124 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | SSAATB | |
| Ave maris stella | John Sheppard | 113 | Sacred | Office hymns | Latin | 6 | SSATTBB | |
| Domine quis habitabit II | Robert White | 131 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Jesu salvator saeculi, redemptis | John Sheppard | 80 | Sacred | Office hymns | Latin | 5 | AATTB | |
| Adesto Sancta Trinitas (1st setting) | John Sheppard | 114 | Sacred | Office hymns | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Confitebor tibi, Domine | John Sheppard | 4 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SATBB | |
| Benigne fac, Domine | William Byrd | 36 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SATTB | |
| Beatus et sanctus | William Mundy | 38 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | STTBB | |
| Deus tuorum militum (2nd setting) | John Sheppard | 83 | Sacred | Office hymns | Latin | 5 | ATTBB | |
| Deus tuorum militum (1st setting) | John Sheppard | 81 | Sacred | Office hymns | Latin | 5 | AATTB | |
| Spiritus Sanctus procedens (1st setting) | John Sheppard | 145 | Sacred | Responsories | Latin | 5 | TTBBB | |
| Spiritus Sanctus procedens (2nd setting) | John Sheppard | 24 | Sacred | Responsories | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Impetum fecerunt unanimes | John Sheppard | 91 | Sacred | Responsories | Latin | 5 | STTBB, SAATB | |
| Dum transisset (1st setting) | John Sheppard | 111 | Sacred | Responsories | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Dum transisset (2nd setting) | John Sheppard | 150 | Sacred | Responsories | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Domine Deus omnipotens | William Byrd | 8 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | ATTTB | |
| Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in Latin | Thomas Tallis | 62 | Sacred | Evening Canticles | Latin | 5 | SATTB | |
| Deus, misereatur nostri | Robert White | 123 | Psalm 67 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | AATTBB |
| Deus in adjutorium | William Byrd | 139 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | AATTBB | |
| A solis ortus cardine | John Sheppard | 109 | Sacred | Office hymns | Latin | 8 | SSAATTBB | |
| Miserere mei Deus | Christopher Tye | 27 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | TTBBB | |
| Quaesumus omnipotens | Christopher Tye | 121 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | SATTTB | |
| Cantate Domino | Christopher Tye | 122 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | STTBBB,SAATBB | |
| Judica me, Deus | John Sheppard | 1 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | STTBB | |
| Adesto Sancta Trinitas (2nd setting) | John Sheppard | 117 | Sacred | Office hymns | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Aeterne rex altissime | John Sheppard | 79 | Sacred | Office hymns | Latin | 5 | STTBB | |
| Beati omnes | John Sheppard | 2 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | STTBB | |
| Christe redemptor omnium | John Sheppard | 82 | Sacred | Office hymns | Latin | 5 | STTBB | |
| Iam Christus astra ascenderat | John Sheppard | 112 | Sacred | Office hymns | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Laudes Deo | Robert Johnson | 167a | Sacred | Liturgical music | Latin | 2 | AT | |
| Sint lumbi vestri praecincti | John Redford | 99 | Sacred | Responsories | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Noli aemulari | William Mundy | 66 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 7 | AATTBBB | |
| Hostis Herodes impie | John Sheppard | 115 | Sacred | Office hymns | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Vox Patris caelestis | William Mundy | 136 | Sacred | Votive antiphons | Latin | 6 | SATTBB | |
| Deus misereatur nostri | John Sheppard | 3 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | STTBB | |
| Ecce nunc benedicite II (Baldwin Partbooks) | Anonymous | 103 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | AATTBB | |
| Dum transisset sabbatum | John Strabridge | 11 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SATBB | |
| Dum transisset Sabbatum II | John Taverner | 23 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SATBB | |
| Ecce Carissimi | John Taverner | 168a | Sacred | Antiphons | Latin | 2 | AB | |
| Aspice Domine | Philip van Wilder | 6 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | SATTB | |
| Predicabo laudes tuas | William Daman | 104 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | SSATBB | |
| Beati omnes | William Daman | 159 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 6 | SSTTBB | |
| Confitebor tibi Domine (Baldwin PB) | Anonymous | 64 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | STTTB | |
| Omni tempore benedic | William Byrd | 18 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | STTBB | |
| Ne perdas cum impiis | William Byrd | 19 | Sacred | Motets | Latin | 5 | STTTB |