William Byrd

A Research and Information Guide

Richard Turbet

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780415875592
• eBook ISBN: 9781136282058
• Edition: 3
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

This comprehensive research guide surveys the most significant published materials relating to William Byrd. This new edition includes research since the publication of the last edition.

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Catalog of Byrd’s Works

This catalog consists of all the works considered to be by Byrd, with an appendix of doubtful attributions, followed by “The Byrd Apocrypha” which consists of all known spurious attributions. The catalog is in a broadly classified order based on A, except for the consort music, which is partially based on L, and the keyboard music, which is based on J. The apocrypha is alphabetical. There is an index to titles of all pieces including separate sections and appropriate contrafacta, with versions of those titles that survive in significantly varied forms.

The catalog provides references to the appearances of Byrd’s works in the complete or partial editions A-H and lists J-M; in modern editions N-V of pieces which are not included in A; in the six publications from Byrd’s lifetime containing, but not devoted to, his works, a-f; and in a variety of printed sources BMSJ-WI which contain pieces by Byrd in other significant editions, or other significant listings of Byrd’s music, or, in the main, apocryphal items not in editions of Byrd’s music. References are given for all Byrd’s works in FVB as F was intended to complete the corpus of Byrd’s keyboard music begun in FVB, H and e: see F p. xi.

One or more of the following pieces of information are provided: the number of the item if it occurs in one of Byrd’s own publications; the key letter or letters to indicate printed editions or lists; in Roman, the volume number; in Arabic, the number of the first page; the section of the edition or list in which the item occurs; the number of the item in the edition or list; and the title given to the item where it differs substantially from the one in the catalog. Any appropriate annotations are placed at the end of the entry. A lone letter indicates the presence of the item with no deviations of title or allotted section in one of the lists. Unnecessary duplication of any verbiage or numeration is avoided. Only a Byrd source or the most recent source is usually provided for apocryphal material.

The purpose of the catalog and of its arrangement is twofold: first, to provide unification in respect of the inconsistent and cumbersome numerations among existing editions and lists; and to provide published sources for all works associated with Byrd, especially when those sources have attempted to publish all of Byrd’s works or all of a section of his works.

The criterion for a work’s inclusion in the main catalog is that, having weighed the opinions, alongside my own, of appropriate authorities—bibliographical, executant, historical, analytical—I consider the balance favorable. In the absence of conclusive evidence and whe...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Catalog of Byrd’s Works
• 2. Ecclesiastical or Domestic?: Criteria for Identification of the Initial Destinations of William Byrd’s Music to Religious Vernacular Texts
• 3. Byrd Literature: The Survey Continued, 2005–2011, with a Complete Checklist from 1826
• 4. Classified Annotated Bibliography
• 5. Byrd Discography 2004–2010
• Index