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William Byrd (/ b ɜːr d /; c. 1540 – 4 July 1623) was an English Renaissance composer. Considered among the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he had a profound influence on composers both from his native country and on the Continent. [1]
William Byrd. This is a list of the musical compositions by William Byrd, ... (ATTBarB) – Claimed to be by "Mr Byrde" in the Paston Lute Book, ...
My Ladye Nevells Booke consists of 42 pieces for keyboard by William Byrd, widely considered [1] one of the greatest English composers of his time. Although the music was copied by John Baldwin, a singing man from St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, who was also paid for copying music at the chapel in the 1580s, [2] the pieces seem to have been selected, organised and even edited and corrected ...
There is a keyboard version in C major by William Byrd. The work is included in two of the most important collections of keyboard music of the Renaissance, My Ladye Nevells Booke and the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. The copying of My Ladye Nevells Booke, which contains a selection of Byrd's keyboard pieces, was completed in 1591.
William Byrd: Lullaby, my sweet little baby: William Byrd: This sweet and merry month of May: William Byrd: Though Amaryllis dance: Michael Cavendish: Come, gentle swains: Michael East: Poor is the life: Michael East: Quick, quick, away, dispatch! Michael East (*No haste, but good!) John Farmer: Fair nymphs, I heard one telling: John Farmer ...
The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is a primary source of keyboard music from the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods in England, i.e., the late Renaissance and very early Baroque. It takes its name from Viscount Fitzwilliam who bequeathed this manuscript collection to Cambridge University in 1816.
Pages in category "Compositions by William Byrd" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Mass for Five Voices is a choral Mass setting by the English composer William Byrd (c. 1540–1623). It was probably written c. 1594 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, and is one of three settings of the Mass Ordinary which Byrd published in the early 1590s.