Category: Byrd, William (1539/1540-1623)

 

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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Matthew 22:37,39 [Latin]

³⁷ Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

³⁹ And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

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Diliges Dominum (1575, from Cantiones Sacrae) by William Byrd (1539/1540-1623)

Performed by the Sixteen, Dir. Harry Christophers

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