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 | Year | Composer | Genre | Subgenre | Vo. | Voices |
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A doleful deadly pang | 1580 | Nicholas Strogers | Secular | Consort songs | 1 | |
Ad te clamamus (Salve regina) | 1580 | Christopher Tye | Sacred | Motets | 5 | TTBBB |
Ah, alas, you salt sea gods | 1580 | Richard Farrant | Secular | Madrigals | 1 | Solo Soprano |
Angelus ad pastores ait | 1580 | Orlando di Lasso | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
Apparebit in finem | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
Appropinquet deprecatio mea | 1580 | Robert White | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
Audivi vocem | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
Ave Maria | 1580 | Robert Parsons | Sacred | Motets | 5vv or 6 | ATTBB, SAATB, SAATBB |
Blessed is he that fears the Lord | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Sacred songs | 5 | SATTB |
Candidi facti sunt | 1580 | Thomas Tallis | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATBBB,SATTB,SATBB |
Care for thy soul | 1580 | William Byrd | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SAATB |
Christe qui lux es et dies III | 1580 | Robert White | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SSATB |
Christe qui lux es et dies II | 1580 | Robert White | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
Christe qui lux es et dies IV | 1580 | Robert White | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATBB |
Christe qui lux es et dies I | 1580 | Robert White | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SAATB |
Christe qui lux es et dies a 5 | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
Christus resurgens | 1580 | John Tailer | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATBBB |
Come Holy Ghost | 1580 | Anonymous | Sacred | Consort songs | 5 | |
Come to me grief for ever | 1580 | William Byrd | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SSATB |
Come tread the paths | 1580 | Anonymous | Secular | Consort songs | 1 | |
Deus venerunt gentes - Posuerunt morticinia - Effuderunt sanguinem - Facti sumus opprobrium | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
Domine exaudi orationem - Et non intres in judicium | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
Domine praestolamur - Veni Domine noli tardare | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
Domine tu jurasti | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SAATB |
Dum transisset Sabbatum | 1580 | Roose | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
Dum transisset Sabbatum I | 1580 | John Taverner | Sacred | Motets | 4-5 | SATBB, TTBB |
Dum transisset Sabbatum a 5 | 1580 | Robert Johnson | Sacred | Responsories | 5 | SATBB |
Enforced by love and fear | 1580 | Robert Parsons | Secular | Madrigals | 1 | Solo Countertenor |
Esurientes implevit bonis | 1580 | John Sheppard | Sacred | Vespers | 5 | AATBB |
Even from the depth | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Sacred songs | 5 | ATTBB |
Exaudiat te Dominus | 1580 | Robert White | Sacred | Motets | 8 | SSAATTBB |
Exsurge Domine | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
Fac cum servo tuo | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
Hey down, down | 1580 | Anonymous | Secular | Canons | 4 | SBBB,SBBBB |
How long shall mine enemies | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Anthems | 5 | ATTBB |
How shall a young man | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred Sacred |
Partsongs Consort songs |
5 | SATTB |
I joy not in no earthly bliss | 1580 | William Byrd | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SATTB |
If that a sinner's sighs | 1580 | William Byrd | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SATTB |
If women could be fair | 1580 | William Byrd | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | ATTBB |
In fields abroad | 1580 | William Byrd | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SATTB |
In resurrectione tua | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
Justus es Domine | 1580 | Robert White | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATBB |
La Virginella | 1580 | William Byrd | Secular | Madrigals | 5 | SATTB |
Laetentur coeli - Orietur in diebus | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB,SATBB |
Lamentations a 5 | 1580 | Robert White | Sacred | Lamentations | 5 | SATBB |
Lord in thy wrath reprove me not | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Sacred songs | 5 | SAATB |
Lulla, lullaby, my sweet little baby | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Partsongs | 5 | SAATB |
Manus tuae fecerunt me | 1580 | Robert White | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
Mirabile mysterium | 1580 | Alfonso Ferrabosco I | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
Miserere mei, Deus | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Motets | ||
Miserere mei Deus | 1580 | Robert White | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
My mind to me a kingdom is | 1580 | William Byrd | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SAATB |
Ne irascaris Domine - Civitas sancti tui | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB,SATTB |
Non me vincat, Deus meus | 1580 | Nicholas Strogers | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
O Domine adjuva me | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Anthems | 6 | SAATTB,ATTBBB |
O bone Jesu | 1580 | Robert Parsons | Sacred | Motets | 6 | AATBBB |
O quam gloriosum est regnum - Benedictio et claritas | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SSATB |
O sacrum convivium | 1580 | Thomas Tallis | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB, SAATB, SATTB |
O salutaris hostia | 1580 | Thomas Tallis | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATBB |
O that most rare breast | 1580 | William Byrd | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SATTB |
Omnes gentes, plaudite manibus | 1580 | Christopher Tye | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SAATB,SATBB |
Portio mea Domine | 1580 | Robert White | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
Prevent us, O Lord | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Anthems | 5 | SAATB |
Prostrate O Lord I lie | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Partsongs | 5 | SATBB |
Retribue servo tuo | 1580 | Robert Parsons | Sacred | Motets | 7 | SSAATBB, AATTBBB |
Salvator mundi II | 1580 | Thomas Tallis | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB, SATTB |
Salvator mundi I | 1580 | Thomas Tallis | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
Sive vigilem | 1580 | William Mundy | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
Susanna fair (1588) | 1580 | William Byrd | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SATTB |
Susanne un jour | 1580 | Orlando di Lasso | Secular | Chansons | 5 | SATTB |
The Lord bless us and keep us | 1580 | Robert White | Sacred | Anthems | 5 | SAATB |
Though Amarillis dance in green | 1580 | William Byrd | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SAATB |
Tribulatio proxima est - Contumelias et terrores | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
Tribulationes civitatum - Timor et hebetudo - Nos enim pro peccatis | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB, SATTB |
Tristitia et anxietas - Sed tu Domine | 1580 | William Byrd | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
Veni in hortum meum | 1580 | Orlando di Lasso | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
Vestigia mea dirige | 1580 | Nathaniel Giles | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SAATB |
When I was otherwise | 1580 | William Byrd | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SATTB |
Where fancy fond | 1580 | William Byrd | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SATTB |
Who likes to love | 1580 | William Byrd | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SATTB |
Why do I use my paper, ink and pen? | 1580 | William Byrd | 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.