Canon
Where to start with Byrd
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
Chamber3 French Corantos, for keyboard, MB21
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VocalAd Dominum cum tribularer
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Chamber5th Galliard
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Chamber5th Pavan
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ChamberA Voluntarie
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VocalAh silly soul
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VocalAlack, when I look back
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ChamberAll in a garden green, MB56
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VocalAlleluia, Ave Maria
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ChamberAlman
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VocalAn aged dame
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VocalArise O Lord, why sleepest thou
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VocalAspice Domine de sede
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VocalAspice, Domine, quia facta est desolata civitas
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VocalAttollite portas
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Byrd's catalogueMost Popular
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Mass for Five Voices
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My Lady Nevell\’s Book (keyboard collection)
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Pavane and Galliard in D minor (Fitzwilliam Book)
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Ye Sacred Muses (elegy for Tallis)
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Sing Joyfully
Most Acclaimed
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Mass for Three Voices
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Mass for Four Voices
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Pavans and Galliards (Fitzwilliam Book — complete)
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Gradualia (complete two volumes)
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Fantasia in G minor (keyboard)
Most Weird
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The Bells (keyboard)imitates bell overtones — the only 16th-century piece that sounds electronic
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Fantasia in G minorfree-form keyboard — the most harmonically adventurous thing he wrote
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Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la (keyboard)systematic hexachord exploration — structural experiment
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Browning a 5fantasy on a folk tune for five viols — 20 variations on one short melody
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Passamezzo Pavana (Fitzwilliam Book)massive keyboard variations — technically astonishing for the period
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 290
- Chamber
- 3 French Corantos, for keyboard, MB21
- 5th Galliard
- 5th Pavan
- A Voluntarie
- All in a garden green, MB56
- Alman
- Barley break, MB92
- Browning
- Callino casturame, MB35
- Christ rising again
- Clarifica Me Pater, for keyboard, MB49
- Coranto, for keyboard in C major, MB45
- Echo Pavan and Galliard in G major, MB114
- Fantasia a3
- Fantasia a3 no. 1 in C
- Fantasia a3 no. 2 in C
- Fantasia a3, MB6
- Fantasia a4 In D
- Fantasia a4 in G
- Fantasia a5 in C
- Fantasia a6 no. 1 in G minor
- Fantasia a6 no. 2 in G minor, MB63
- Fantasia a6 no. 3 in G minor
- Fantasia a6, MB81
- Fantasia in A minor, MB13
- Fantasia in A minor, for keyboard
- Fantasia in C major, MB26
- Fantasia in C major, no. 2, MB25
- Fantasia in C major, no. 3, MB27
- Fantasia in D minor, MB46
- Fantasia in G major, MB61, "Voluntary for my Lady Neville"
- Fantasia in G major, no. 2, MB62
- Fantasia in G major, no. 3, MB63
- Fantasia in G minor, MB55
- Fantasia no. 2, BE17/13
- Fantasia, for keyboard in G major, MB 62
- Fantazia Mr Bird
- Fortune, MB6
- Gaillard
- Gaillard for the Victory, MB95
- Galiarda, for keyboard
- Galliard Jig, MB18
- Galliard in C
- Galliard, for lute
- Gipsies' Round, MB80
- Ground, for keyboard in C major, MB43
- Ground, for keyboard in G major, MB9
- Hugh Aston's Ground, MB20
- In nomine a4 no. 2
- In nomine a5 no. 2
- In nomine a5 no. 3
- In nomine a5 no. 4
- In nomine a5 no. 5
- In nomine a5, MB58
- Jig in A minor, MB22
- John come kiss me now, MB81
- John come kiss me now, MB81
- Lady Monteagle's Pavan in G major, MB75
- Lavolta in G minor no. 1
- Lavolta in G minor, no. 2, MB91
- Miserere a4
- Miserere no. 1, MB66
- Monsieur's Alman in G major, no. 1, MB87
- My Lady Nevell's Ground, MB57
- My Lord of Oxenford's Mask
- My Lord of Oxenford's Mask
- My Lord of Oxenford's Mask
- O mistress mine, I must, MB83
- Pavan in G no. 7, MB75, "Lady Monteagle's Pavan"
- Pavan a5 in C minor
- Pavan a5, MB29
- Pavan and 2 Galliards in A minor, MB15, "The Earl of Salisbury"
- Pavan and Gaillard in C minor no. 1
- Pavan and Gaillard in C minor no. 2
- Pavan and Gaillard in C no. 1
- Pavan and Gaillard in G no. 2
- Pavan and Gaillard, for keyboard in A minor no. 3, MB 16
- Pavan and Galliard a6 in C major, MB75
- Pavan and Galliard in A minor no. 1
- Pavan and Galliard in C no. 2
- Pavan and Galliard in F
- Pavan and Galliard in F major, MB59, "Bray"
- Pavan and Galliard in F no. 1
- Pavan and Galliard in G
- Pavan and Galliard in G minor no. 1
- Pavan and Galliard in G minor no. 10
- Pavan and Galliard no. 3
- Pavan and Galliard, for keyboard in B flat major, MB 23
- Pavan and Galliard, for keyboard, MB 4
- Pavan and Galliard, no. 6
- Pavan in A minor no. 4
- Pavan in A minor no. 4, MB17
- Pavan in G no. 6
- Pavan in G no. 8, MB76
- Pavan, for keyboard
- Praeludium, for keyboard, MB116
- Prelude
- Prelude and Fantasia a5, MB38
- Prelude and Ground a5, MB29
- Prelude and Voluntary
- Prelude in C major, MB24
- Prelude in G minor, MB1
- Prelude to the Fancie in A minor, MB12
- Prelude, MB115
- Preludium
- Preludium
- Queen's Alman, MB10
- Qui passe for my Lady Nevell, MB19
- Rowland, or Lord Willoughby's welcome home, MB7
- Sellinger's Round, MB84
- Sellinger's round, MB84
- Sermone blando
- Susanna fair
- The Barley Break, MB92
- The Battle, MB94
- The Bells of Osney, MB38
- The Carman's whistle, MB36
- The Hunt's Up, or Pescodd's Time, MB40
- The Maiden's song, MB82
- The March before the Battle, or The Earl of Oxford's March, MB93
- The Queen's Good Night
- The Woods So Wild, MB85
- The Woods So Wild, MB85
- The second ground in C major, MB42
- The woods so wild, MB85
- Tregian's Ground
- Ut mi re, MB65
- Ut re mi, for 2 harpsichords
- Ut re mi, in F major, MB58
- Ut re mi, in G major, MB64
- Verse in C major, for keyboard
- Walsingham, MB8
- Wilson's wild, or Wolsey's wilde, MB37
- Vocal
- Ad Dominum cum tribularer
- Ah silly soul
- Alack, when I look back
- Alleluia, Ave Maria
- An aged dame
- Arise O Lord, why sleepest thou
- Aspice Domine de sede
- Aspice, Domine, quia facta est desolata civitas
- Attollite portas
- Ave Maria gratia plena
- Ave regina caelorum
- Ave verum corpus
- Beata viscera
- Beati mundo corde
- Blame I confess
- Blessed is he that fears the Lord
- Cantate Domino
- Christ is risen again
- Christe qui lux es
- Christe qui lux es
- Christus resurgens
- Circumspice, Hierusalem
- Civitas sancti tui
- Come to me, grief
- Come woeful Orpheus
- Constant Penelope
- Content is rich
- Cradle Song
- Crowned with flow'rs and lilies
- Da mihi auxilium
- De lamentatione Jeremiae,
- Delight is dead
- Deus venerunt gentes
- Diliges Dominum
- Domine praestolamur
- Domine quis habitabit
- Domine secundum actum meum
- Domine secundum multitudinem
- Domine, non sum dignus
- Domine, salva nos
- Domine, tu jurasti
- Earthly tree, duet for 2 sopranos
- Ecce Virgo concipiet
- Ecce advenit Dominator Dominus
- Emendemus in melius
- Exsurge Domine
- Fair Britain isle
- Farewell false love
- First Preces and Psalms
- From Virgin's Womb
- Gaudeamus omnes
- Gradualia, Book 2
- Haec dies
- Haec dies
- Have mercy upon me, O God
- He that all eathly pleasure scorns
- Hodie Christus natus est
- If in thy heart, madrigal
- In angel's weed
- In fields abroad
- In manas tuas Domine
- In resurrectione tua
- Infelix ego
- Justorum animae
- Justorum animae
- La verginella
- Laetentur coeli
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes
- Laudate, pueri, Dominum
- Laudibus in sanctus
- Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna
- Lord, in thy wrath reprove me not
- Lullaby, my sweet little baby
- Lullaby, my sweet little baby
- Magnificat
- Mass for 3 Voices
- Mass for 4 Voices
- Mass for 5 Voices
- Memento, homo
- Miserere
- Miserere mei Deus
- Miserere mihi, Domine
- My mind to me a kingdom is
- My mistress had a little dog
- Ne irascaris Domine
- Non nobis Domine
- Non vos relinquam Orphanos
- Nunc dimittis
- Nunc dimittis servum tuam
- O God that guides the cheerful sun
- O God, the proud are risen
- O Lord, bow down
- O Lord, how long wilt thou forget?
- O Lord, how vain
- O Lord, make Thy servant Elizabeth
- O admirabile commercium
- O dear life
- O lux, beata Trinitas
- O magnum misterium
- O quam gloriosum
- O quam suavis est
- O that most rare breast
- O you that hear this voice
- Out of the orient crystal skies
- Peccantem me quotidie
- Penelope that longed for the sight
- Plorans Ploravit
- Plorans Ploravit
- Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles
- Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles
- Prevent us, O Lord
- Propers for the Mass of Easter Day
- Propers for the Mass of Pentecost
- Propers for the Mass of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- Propers for the Mass of the Nativity
- Puer natus est nobis
- Quis et homo
- Quis me statim
- Quomodo cantabimus
- Reges tharsis et insulae
- Regina coeli
- Rejoice unto the Lord
- Rorate caeli desuper
- Salve Regina
- Salve Regina
- Second Preces and Psalms
- Siderum Rector
- Sing Joyfully
- Solve iubente Deo
- Terra tremuit, motet
- The Great Service, for 5-10 voices
- The man is blest
- The noble famous queen, "While Phoebus used to dwell"
- This sweet and merry month of May
- This sweet and merry month of May
- Though Amaryllis dance in green
- Though Amaryllis dance in green
- Though God that guid'st
- Timete Dominum
- Tollite portas
- Tribue Domine
- Tribulatio proxima est
- Tribulationes civitatum
- Tristitia et anxietas
- Triumph with pleasant melody voices
- Truth at the first
- Turn our captivity, O Lord
- Veni sancte Spiritus, et emite
- Vigilate
- Viri Galilaei, quid admiramini?
- Visita quaesumus Domine
- Weeping full sore
- What pleasure have great princes?
- Who likes to love
- Who made thee, Hob, forsake the plough?
- Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?
- Ye sacred Muses, "Elegy for Thomas Tallis"