ABSTRACT
No music manuscript in Byrd’s hand is known to exist, but some two-thirds of his compositions are gathered in collections for which he was responsible. The printed compilations are Cantiones, quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur (1575), Psalmes, sonets, & songs of sadnes and pietie (1588), Liber primus sacrarum cantionum (1589), Songs of sundrie natures (1589), Liber secundus sacrarum cantionum (1591), Gradualia: ac cantiones sacrae (1605), Gradualia: seu cantionum sacrarum (1607), and Psalmes, songs, and sonnets (1611). A manuscript collection of keyboard music, My Ladye Nevells Booke (1591), is assumed to have been prepared under Byrd’s supervision and was corrected by him.
