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==Publications==
==Publications==
*''[[Cantiones, quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur (William Byrd/Thomas Tallis)|Cantiones Sacrae]]'' (1575)
*''[[Cantiones Sacrae I (William Byrd)|Cantiones Sacrae I]]'' (1589)
*''[[Cantiones Sacrae I (William Byrd)|Cantiones Sacrae I]]'' (1589)
*''[[Cantiones Sacrae II (William Byrd)|Cantiones Sacrae II]]'' (1591)
*''[[Cantiones Sacrae II (William Byrd)|Cantiones Sacrae II]]'' (1591)
*''[[Psalmes, Sonnets and Songs (William Byrd)|Psalmes, Sonnets & Songs]]'' (1588)  
*''[[Psalmes, Sonnets and Songs (William Byrd)|Psalmes, Sonnets & Songs]]'' (1588)  
*''[[Songs of sundrie natures (William Byrd)|Songs of sundrie natures]]'' (1589)
*''[[Songs of sundrie natures (William Byrd)|Songs of sundrie natures]]'' (1589)
*''[[Masses for 3, 4 & 5 voices (William Byrd)|Masses for 3, 4 & 5 voices]'' (1592-95)
*''[[Gradualia I (William Byrd)|Gradualia I]]'' (1605)
*''[[Gradualia I (William Byrd)|Gradualia I]]'' (1605)
*''[[Gradualia II (William Byrd)|Gradualia II]]'' (1607)
*''[[Gradualia II (William Byrd)|Gradualia II]]'' (1607)
*''[[Psalmes, songs and sonnets (William Byrd)|Psalmes, songs and sonnets]]'' (1611)


==External links==
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Revision as of 22:01, 21 January 2006

Life

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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.

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  • Great Service, The (no sheet music yet)
    • Venite
    • Te Deum
    • Benedictus
    • Creed
    • Magnificat
    • Nunc dimittis

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