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*[[Short Evening Service (Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis) (William Byrd)|<i>Short Evening Service (Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis)</i>]] ( [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sheet/byrd/byrd-ses.pdf http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/84/Icon_pdf.gif] [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sound/byrd/byrd-ses.mid http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/81/Icon_snd.gif] [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/source/byrd/byrd-ses.zip ENCORE] ) | *[[Short Evening Service (Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis) (William Byrd)|<i>Short Evening Service (Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis)</i>]] ( [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sheet/byrd/byrd-ses.pdf http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/84/Icon_pdf.gif] [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sound/byrd/byrd-ses.mid http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/81/Icon_snd.gif] [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/source/byrd/byrd-ses.zip ENCORE] ) | ||
*[[Sicut Audivimus (William Byrd)|<i>Sicut Audivimus</i>]] ( [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sheet/byrd-sic.pdf http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/84/Icon_pdf.gif] [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sound/byrd-sic.mid http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/81/Icon_snd.gif] [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/source/byrd-sic.sib SIBELIUS] ) | *[[Sicut Audivimus (William Byrd)|<i>Sicut Audivimus</i>]] ( [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sheet/byrd-sic.pdf http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/84/Icon_pdf.gif] [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sound/byrd-sic.mid http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/81/Icon_snd.gif] [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/source/byrd-sic.sib SIBELIUS] ) | ||
*[[Siderum rector (William Byrd)|<i>Siderum rector</i>]] | *[[Siderum rector (William Byrd)|<i>Siderum rector</i>]] - ''2 editions available'' | ||
*[[Sing Joyfully (William Byrd)|<i>Sing Joyfully</i>]] - ''2 editions available'' | *[[Sing Joyfully (William Byrd)|<i>Sing Joyfully</i>]] - ''2 editions available'' | ||
*[[Sing we merrily unto God (William Byrd)|<i>Sing we merrily unto God</i>]] ( [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sheet/byrd-si1.pdf http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/84/Icon_pdf.gif] [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sound/byrd-si1.mid http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/81/Icon_snd.gif] [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/source/byrd-si1.sib Sibelius 2] ) | *[[Sing we merrily unto God (William Byrd)|<i>Sing we merrily unto God</i>]] ( [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sheet/byrd-si1.pdf http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/84/Icon_pdf.gif] [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/sound/byrd-si1.mid http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/8/81/Icon_snd.gif] [http://wso.williams.edu/cpdl/source/byrd-si1.sib Sibelius 2] ) |
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Life
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Died: 4 July 1623]]
William Byrd (1540? – 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 is 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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Publications
- Cantiones Sacrae I (1589)
- Cantiones Sacrae II (1591)
- Psalmes, Sonnets & Songs (1588)
- Songs of sundrie natures (1589)
- Gradualia I (1605)
- Gradualia II (1607)
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