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==General Information== | ==General Information== | ||
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'''Composer:''' [[William Byrd]] | '''Composer:''' [[William Byrd]]<br> | ||
The title-page of Byrd's final publication reads ''Psalmes, Songs, and Sonnets: some solemne, other joyfull, framed to the life of the Words: Fit for Voyces or Viols of 3. 4. 5. and 6. Parts. Composed by ''William Byrd'', one of the Gent. of his Majesties honourable Chappell.'' It has been suggested that viol-playing came once more into fashion in the early years of the seventeenth century; hence not only Byrd's inclusion of some old fantazias and consort songs probably dating from the 1580s, but his suggestion that any of the pieces could be either played or sung. | The title-page of Byrd's final publication reads ''Psalmes, Songs, and Sonnets: some solemne, other joyfull, framed to the life of the Words: Fit for Voyces or Viols of 3. 4. 5. and 6. Parts. Composed by ''William Byrd'', one of the Gent. of his Majesties honourable Chappell.'' It has been suggested that viol-playing came once more into fashion in the early years of the seventeenth century; hence not only Byrd's inclusion of some old fantazias and consort songs probably dating from the 1580s, but his suggestion that any of the pieces could be either played or sung. | ||
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==List of works== | ==List of works== | ||
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====For 3 voices==== | ====For 3 voices==== | ||
*''1. [[The Eagle's force (William Byrd)| The Eagle's force]]'' | *''1. [[The Eagle's force (William Byrd)| The Eagle's force]]'' | ||
*''2. [[Of flattering speech (William Byrd)|Of flattering speech]]'' | *''2. [[Of flattering speech (William Byrd)|Of flattering speech]]'' | ||
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*''7. [[I have been young (William Byrd)|I have been young]]'' | *''7. [[I have been young (William Byrd)|I have been young]]'' | ||
*''8. [[In crystal towers (William Byrd)|In crystal towers]]'' | *''8. [[In crystal towers (William Byrd)|In crystal towers]]'' | ||
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====For 4 voices==== | ====For 4 voices==== | ||
*''9. [[This sweet and merry month of May (a 4) (William Byrd)|This sweet and merry month of May]]'' | *''9. [[This sweet and merry month of May (a 4) (William Byrd)|This sweet and merry month of May]]'' | ||
*''10. [[Let not the sluggish sleep (William Byrd)|Let not the sluggish sleep]]'' | *''10. [[Let not the sluggish sleep (William Byrd)|Let not the sluggish sleep]]'' | ||
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*''15. Fantazia (instrumental)''<br> | *''15. Fantazia (instrumental)''<br> | ||
*''16. [[Come let us rejoice unto our Lord (William Byrd)|Come let us rejoice unto our Lord]]'' | *''16. [[Come let us rejoice unto our Lord (William Byrd)|Come let us rejoice unto our Lord]]'' | ||
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====For 5 voices==== | ====For 5 voices==== | ||
*''17. [[Retire my soul (William Byrd)|Retire my soul]]'' | *''17. [[Retire my soul (William Byrd)|Retire my soul]]'' | ||
*''18. [[Arise Lord into thy rest (William Byrd)|Arise Lord into thy rest]]'' | *''18. [[Arise Lord into thy rest (William Byrd)|Arise Lord into thy rest]]'' | ||
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*''23. [[Wedded to will is witless (William Byrd)|Wedded to will is witless]]'' | *''23. [[Wedded to will is witless (William Byrd)|Wedded to will is witless]]'' | ||
*''24. [[Make ye joy to God (William Byrd)|Make ye joy to God]]'' | *''24. [[Make ye joy to God (William Byrd)|Make ye joy to God]]'' | ||
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====For 6 voices==== | ====For 6 voices==== | ||
*''25. [[Have mercy upon me (William Byrd)|Have mercy upon me]]'' | *''25. [[Have mercy upon me (William Byrd)|Have mercy upon me]]'' | ||
*''26. Fantazia (instrumental)''<br> | *''26. Fantazia (instrumental)''<br> | ||
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*''31. [[Ah silly Soul (William Byrd)|Ah silly Soul]]'' | *''31. [[Ah silly Soul (William Byrd)|Ah silly Soul]]'' | ||
*''32. [[How vain the toils (William Byrd)|How vain the toils]]'' | *''32. [[How vain the toils (William Byrd)|How vain the toils]]'' | ||
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Editions of the two purely instrumental numbers are available from the Werner Icking Music Archive ({{website|wimabycomp}}Byrd.php) | Editions of the two purely instrumental numbers are available from the Werner Icking Music Archive ({{website|wimabycomp}}Byrd.php) | ||
==Works at CPDL== | |||
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Latest revision as of 16:11, 14 June 2019
General Information
Publication date and place: 1611 .
Composer: William Byrd
The title-page of Byrd's final publication reads Psalmes, Songs, and Sonnets: some solemne, other joyfull, framed to the life of the Words: Fit for Voyces or Viols of 3. 4. 5. and 6. Parts. Composed by William Byrd, one of the Gent. of his Majesties honourable Chappell. It has been suggested that viol-playing came once more into fashion in the early years of the seventeenth century; hence not only Byrd's inclusion of some old fantazias and consort songs probably dating from the 1580s, but his suggestion that any of the pieces could be either played or sung.
The collection is even more wide-ranging than his two previous vernacular publications, including distinctly old-fashioned polyphonic songs setting some 50-year-old moralistic verse of a kind of which Byrd never tired alongside a series of psalm-settings in the most modern manner, possibly dating from the 1590s or even from Jacobean times. (Unless Byrd had access to pre-publication copies of the Primer (see below), then most of these anthems must date from the 17th century.) These include the well-known Praise our Lord all ye Gentiles and the (to this writer) even finer Turn our captivity, both six-part pieces displaying every facet of Byrd's incomparable contrapuntal art. Any suggestion that these were intended as Anglican anthems is probably refuted by an examination of the textual sources; the majority of the psalm translations are taken from Richard Verstegan's Primer, or Office of the blessed Virgin Marie (1599 & many editions thereafter), a book of hours serving as a lay equivalent of the Breviary and much in use by recusant communities in England.
Although this was the last publication that Byrd himself compiled, his work appeared in two further publications before his death: Parthenia, the first ever printed book of keyboard music (1612-13) and William Leighton's The teares or lamentacions of a sorrowfull soule.
List of works
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For 4 voices
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For 5 voices
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For 6 voices
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Editions of the two purely instrumental numbers are available from the Werner Icking Music Archive (http://icking-music-archive.org/ByComposer/Byrd.php)
Works at CPDL
Title | Year | No. | Genre | Subgenre | Vo. | Voices |
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A feigned friend | 1611 | 11 | Secular | Partsongs | 4 | SSAT |
Ah silly Soul | 1611 | 31 | Secular | Consort songs | 1 | A |
Arise Lord into thy rest | 1611 | 18 | Sacred | Anthems | 5 | AATTB |
Awake mine eyes | 1611 | 12 | Secular | Partsongs | 4 | SSAB |
Come jolly Swains | 1611 | 13 | Secular | Partsongs | 4 | SSAT |
Come let us rejoice unto our Lord | 1611 | 16 | Sacred | Anthems | 4 | SSAT |
Come woeful Orpheus | 1611 | 19 | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SSATB |
Crowned with flowers | 1611 | 22 | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SATTB |
Have mercy upon me | 1611 | 25 | Sacred | Anthems | 6 | SATTTB |
How vain the toils | 1611 | 32 | Sacred | Consort songs | 1 | A |
I have been young | 1611 | 7 | Sacred | Partsongs | 3 | SST |
In Winter cold - Whereat an ant | 1611 | 3-4 | Secular | Partsongs | 3 | SST |
In crystal towers | 1611 | 8 | Secular | Partsongs | 3 | SST |
Let not the sluggish sleep | 1611 | 10 | Secular | Partsongs | 4 | AATB |
Make ye joy to God | 1611 | 24 | Sacred | Anthems | 5 | AATTB |
O God that guides the cheerful sun | 1611 | 28 | Sacred | Anthems | 6 | SAATTB |
Of flattering speech | 1611 | 2 | Secular | Partsongs | 3 | SST |
Praise our Lord all ye Gentiles | 1611 | 29 | Sacred | Anthems | 6 | SSATBB, AATTBB |
Retire my soul | 1611 | 17 | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SSATB |
Sing we merrily unto God | 1611 | 20-21 | Sacred | Anthems | 5 | SSSAT |
Sing ye to our Lord | 1611 | 6 | Sacred | Sacred songs | 3 | SST |
The Eagle's force | 1611 | 1 | Secular | Partsongs | 3 | AAT |
This day Christ was born | 1611 | 27 | Sacred | Anthems | 6 | SSAATB |
This sweet and merry month of May (a 4) | 1590 | 9 | Secular | Madrigals | 4 | ATTB,SATB |
Turn our captivity | 1611 | 30 | Sacred | Anthems | 6 | AATTBB |
Wedded to will is witless | 1611 | 23 | Secular | Partsongs | 5 | SATTB |
What is life, or worldly pleasure? | 1611 | 14 | Secular | Partsongs | 4 | SSAT |
Who looks may leap | 1611 | 5 | Secular | Partsongs | 3 | AAT |