ABSTRACT
The discussion of William Byrd's Anglican music left several problems of dating unresolved. The full and verse anthems dealt with here pose further questions, but they all belong fairly certainly to the years after Byrd left Lincoln. It is not possible to decide whether any of Byrd's Anglican music resulted from his commitment to supply Lincoln Cathedral with 'cantica et Servitia divina' for the rest of his life. More than any other pieces among Byrd's English church compositions they have an affinity with the Great Service – for example, in their deployment of two sopranos – and could well be among the last pieces he provided for the Chapel Royal. Hunnis himself appears to have made a verse setting which Byrd reworked for his second version, as he reworked material by other composers. The first source to contain any of its movements is John Baldwin's commonplace book, where the Te Deum is described as part of Byrd's 'Long Service'.
