William byrd famous songs

This is a list of the musical compositions by William Byrd, one of the most celebrated English composers of the Renaissance.

Vocal works

Masses (c. 1592–5)

Latin motets

Cantiones sacrae (Cantiones , quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur) (1575)

• Emendemus in melius á 5
• Libera me Domine et pone me á
• Peccantem me quotidie á 5
• Aspice Domine á 6
• Attollite portas á 6
• O lux beata Trinitas á 6
• Laudate pueri Dominum á 6
• Memento homo á 6
• Siderum rector á 5
• Da mihi auxilium á 6
• Domine secundum actum meum á 6
• Diliges Dominum á 8
• Miserere mihi Domine á 6
• Tribue Domine; Te deprecor; Gloria Patri á 6
• Libera me Domine de morte aeterna á 5
• Gloria patri á 6
• Te deprecor á 6

Liber primus sacrarum cantionum (Cantiones Sacrae I) (1589)

(all for 5 voices)

• Defecit in dolore – Sed tu Domine
• Domine praestolamur – Veni Domine noli tardare
• O Domine adjuva me
• Tristitia et anxietas – Sed tu Domine
• Memento Domine
• Vide Domine