This is a list of the musical compositions by William Byrd, one of the most celebrated English composers of the Renaissance.
This is a list of the musical compositions by William Byrd, one of the most celebrated English composers of the Renaissance.
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A majority of the unpublished works are found in private partbooks collections. A number of 5- and 6-voice works found in the Baldwin Partbooks are rendered incomplete, as the Tenor partbook has been lost.
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Consort song:
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Psalms
Sonnets and Pastorals
Songs of sadness and piety
The funeral songs of that honourable Gent., Sir Phillip Sidney, Knight
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Byrd wrote at least five services. [1] [2]
BK numbers refer to Musica Britannica: William Byrd Keyboard Music, ed. Alan Brown (London: Stainer & Bell, 2 vols, 1969/71)
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