Byrd, William (1539/1540-1623)

 

John 14:18; 16:22 (Latin)

¹⁸ I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

²² And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.

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Non vos relinquam orphanos (1607) from Gradualia II, no. 37, by William Byrd (1539/40 or 1543 – 1623)

Performed by St. Bartholomew’s Choir (New York), Paolo Bordignon, Organist and Choirmaster

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Psalm 119:33-38

³³ Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.

³⁴ Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

³⁵ Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

³⁶ Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

³⁷ Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

³⁸ Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear.

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Teach me, O Lord, composed by William Byrd (1539/1540-1623)

Performed by Guilford Cathedral Choir, directed by Barry Rose

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Isaiah 7:14 [Latin]

¹⁴ Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

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Ecce Virgo concipiet, from Gradualia, ac cantiones sacræ… Liber primus (2nd edition, 1610), vol.1 no.15. composed by William Byrd (c.1540-1623)

 

Performed by Chorus Salvatoris

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Psalm 119:124-125 [Latin]

¹²⁴ Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.

¹²⁵ I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.

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Fac cum servo tuo (from Cantiones Sacrae 1591), composed by William Byrd (c. 1539/40 or 1543 – 4 July 1623)

Performed by Choir of New College/Edward Higginbottom

 

 

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Jeremiah 31:15-17 [Latin]

¹⁵ Thus saith the Lord; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.

¹⁶ Thus saith the Lord; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.

¹⁷ And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own border.

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Haec dicit Dominus from Cantiones sacrae II (1591), nos. 13-14, composed by William Byrd (1540-1623)

Performed by Quire Cleveland, dir. Ross W. Duffin

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Psalm 137:4-7

⁴ How shall we sing the Lord‘s song in a strange land?

⁵ If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

⁶ If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

⁷ Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

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Quomodo Cantabimus (1584), composed by William Byrd (1540/1543-1623)

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Super Flumina Babylonis and Quomodo Cantabimus composed by Philippe de Monte; William Byrd. Arranged by Sally Dunkley. For SATB double choir. Mixed Voices. Musica dei Donum. Sacred, Choral Leaflet. Vocal score. 48 pages. Duration 12′. Published by Oxford University Press (OU.9780193868175).

 

Psalm 38:9-10 [Latin]

⁹ O Lord, all my longing is before you;
    my sighing is not hidden from you.
¹⁰ My heart throbs; my strength fails me,
    and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.

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Domine ante te omne desiderium, composed by William Byrd (c. 1540-1623)

Performed by The Cardinall’s Musick, Andrew Carwood (conductor)

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Isaiah 64:9-10 [Latin]

⁹ Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

¹⁰ Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

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Ne irascaris Domine (published in 1589) and composed by William Byrd (c. 1540/1543-1623)

Performed by the Choir of Durham Cathedral

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Ne Irascaris Domine by William Byrd (1540-1623). For Choral (SATTB). Music Sales America. Sacred. Chester Music #CH05711. Published by Chester Music (HL.14005590).

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Psalm 118:24 [Latin]

²⁴ This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

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Haec dies (1591) by William Byrd (c.1540-1623)

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English Church Music, Volume 1: Anthems and Motets by Robert King. Arranged by John Rutter. For SATB choir with keyboard/unaccompanied/basso continuo. Mixed Voices. Oxford Choral Classics Collections. Sacred, Choral Collection. Vocal score. 384 pages. Published by Oxford University Press 

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Psalm 121:1-8 [anonymous metrical text version used for Byrd’s music]

¹ I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

² My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.

³ He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

⁴ Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

⁵ The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.

⁶ The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

⁷ The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.

⁸ The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

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 Unto the hills mine eyes I lift (from Songs of Sundrie Natures, 1589) by William Byrd (1540-1623)

Performed by The Cardinall’s Musick, conductor Andrew Carwood

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