Gradualia II (William Byrd)
The second volume of Byrd’s liturgical music for the major feasts of the Church’s year includes complete Mass propers for Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, The Ascension, Pentecost and SS. Peter and Paul, as well as some items for Corpus Christi and the Votive Mass of the Blessed Sacrament not included in volume I. Considerably better-organised than its predecessor, it is able thanks to the more self-contained nature of the feasts involved to abandon the "transfer" scheme employed for the Marian masses in volume I.
First published in 1607, it was reprinted in 1610 with new covers bearing the entirely fraudulent claim that it has been newly revised. The dedicatee is Byrd’s great patron John, Lord Petre of Writtle.
Publication date and place: 1607 by Thomas East in London.
List of works
For 4 voices
Works at CPDL
| Title | Year | No. | Genre | Subgenre | Vo. | Voices |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viderunt omnes (Communion) | 1607 | 5 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | AATB |
| Psallite Domino | 1607 | 29 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | AATTB |
| Terra tremuit | 1607 | 23 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SSATB,AATTB,TTBBB |
| Tui sunt coeli | 1607 | 4 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | AATB |
| Ascendit Deus in jubilatione | 1607 | 28 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | AATTB |
| Confirma hoc Deus | 1607 | 34 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | AATTB,SSATB |
| Pascha nostrum | 1607 | 24 | Sacred | Communions | 5 | AATTB |
| Non vos relinquam orphanos | 1607 | 37 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | AATTB,SSATB |
| Ab ortu solis - Venite comedite | 1607 | 13 & 14 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | ATTB, SATB |
| Vidimus stellam | 1607 | 12 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | AATB |
| Factus est repente | 1607 | 35 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | AATTB, SSATB |
| Alleluia - Emitte Spiritum tuum | 1607 | 32-33 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | AATTB |
| Haec dies - Alleluia Pascha nostrum | 1607 | 21 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | AATTB |
| O Rex gloriae | 1607 | 30 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | AATTB |
| O admirabile commertium | 1607 | 7 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | AATB |
| Alleluia - Ascendit Deus | 1607 | 26-27 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | AATTB, SSATB |
| Hodie Christus natus est | 1607 | 6 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | AATB |
| Viderunt omnes (Gradual) | 1607 | 2 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | AATB |
| Reges Tharsis a 4 | 1607 | 11 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | AATB |
| Tu es pastor ovium | 1607 | 43 | Sacred | Motets | 6 | AATTBB |
| O quam suavis | 1607 | 18 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | ATTB |
| Solve jubente Deo | 1607 | 40 | Sacred | Motets | 6 | AATTBB |
| Tu es Petrus | 1607 | 41 | Sacred | Motets | 6 | AATTBB |
| Alleluia. Cognoverunt discipuli | 1607 | 16 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | ATTB, SATB |
| Spiritus Domini | 1607 | 31 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | AATTB |
| Jesu nostra redemptio | 1607 | 19 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | AATT |
| Laudate Dominum omnes gentes | 1607 | 45 | Sacred | Motets | 6 | AATTBB |
| Viri Galilaei | 1607 | 25 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | AATTB, AATBB |
| Ecce advenit dominator Dominus | 1607 | 10 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | AATB |
| Venite exultemus Domino | 1607 | 46 | Sacred | Motets | 6 | AATTBB,SSATBB |
| Resurrexi | 1607 | 20 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | AATTB |
| Surge, illuminare, Jerusalem | 1607 | 15 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | AATB |
| Victimae paschali laudes | 1607 | 22 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | AATTB |
| Puer natus est nobis | 1607 | 1 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | SATB, AATB |
| Veni Sancte Spiritus | 1607 | 36 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | AATTB |
| Hodie Simon Petrus | 1607 | 42 | Sacred | Motets | 6 | AATTBB |
| Nunc scio vere | 1607 | 38 | Sacred | Motets | 6 | AATTBB |
| Quodcunque ligaveris | 1607 | 44 | Sacred | Motets | 6 | AATTBB |
| Dies sanctificatus | 1607 | 3 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | AATB |
| O magnum mysterium - Beata Virgo | 1607 | 8-9 | Sacred | Motets | ||
| Ego sum panis vivus | 1607 | 17 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | ATTB |
| Constitues eos Principes (Offertory) | 1607 | 39 | Sacred | Offertories | 6 | AATTBB |