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*[[Vultum tuum (William Byrd)|<i>Vultum tuum</i>]] ( [http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/4/4e/BYRD-VUL.pdf http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/84/Icon_pdf.gif] [http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/7/7b/BYRD-VUL.mid http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/81/Icon_snd.gif] [http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/c/ca/BYRD-VUL.sib Sibelius 2] ) | *[[Vultum tuum (William Byrd)|<i>Vultum tuum</i>]] ( [http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/4/4e/BYRD-VUL.pdf http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/84/Icon_pdf.gif] [http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/7/7b/BYRD-VUL.mid http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/81/Icon_snd.gif] [http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/c/ca/BYRD-VUL.sib Sibelius 2] ) | ||
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*[[An earthly tree an heavenly fruit - Cast off all doubtful care (William Byrd)|<i>An earthly tree an heavenly fruit - Cast off all doubtful care</i>]] ( [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sheet/byrd-ane.pdf http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/84/Icon_pdf.gif] [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sound/byrd-ane.mid http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/81/Icon_snd.gif] [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/source/byrd-ane.sib Sibelius 2] ) | *[[An earthly tree an heavenly fruit - Cast off all doubtful care (William Byrd)|<i>An earthly tree an heavenly fruit - Cast off all doubtful care</i>]] ( [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sheet/byrd-ane.pdf http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/84/Icon_pdf.gif] [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sound/byrd-ane.mid http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/81/Icon_snd.gif] [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/source/byrd-ane.sib Sibelius 2] ) | ||
Revision as of 19:27, 27 April 2006
Aliases: In all his surviving signatures, and on most of the publications that he himself supervised, the composer spelt his name "Byrde". His contemporaries knew him indiscriminately as Byrd(e), Bird(e) and even Burd. The "Byrd" spelling comes from the keyboard collection Parthenia, which was one of the first sources of his music to be rediscovered in the 19th century.
Life
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
View the Wikipedia article on William Byrd.
List of choral works
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Publications (vocal music only)
- Cantiones, quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur (1575)
- Psalmes, sonets & songs of sadnes and pietie (1588)
- Cantiones Sacrae I (1589)
- Songs of sundrie natures (1589)
- Cantiones Sacrae II (1591)
- Masses for 3, 4 & 5 voices (1592-95)
- Gradualia I (1605)
- Gradualia II (1607)
- Psalmes, songs and sonnets (1611)
Contributions to:
- Musica Transalpina (1588)
- The first sett, of Italian madrigalls Englished (1590)
- The teares or lamentacions of a sorrowfull soule (1614)