Gradualia I (William Byrd)
The first volume of Byrd’s two-volume compilation of music for the major feasts of the Church’s calendar, Gradualia ac cantiones sacrae, Liber Primus was published in 1605. The extreme rarity of surviving copies of this first edition is perhaps explained by the events of November of that year, after which simply the possession of a copy of this music could have been construed as a treasonable offence. A second edition was issued in 1610, when the domestic political situation had become more secure for Roman Catholics. Byrd had long since retired from London to the rural surroundings of Stondon Massey, Essex, where the recusant group based around the Petre family at Ingatestone would have been the primary recipients of this music.
Publication date and place: 1605 by Thomas East in London.
- Gradualia I (William Byrd) at the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)
The first volume of the Gradualia serves the Marian feasts (explicitly the Purification, Annunciation, Assumption and Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as well as the Conception, Visitation and Presentation) and the Votive Masses of the BVM throughout the year; All Saints, Corpus Christi and Votive Mass of the Blessed Sacrament. Also included are settings of miscellaneous non-liturgical sacred texts, a group of Marian hymns from the Primer and one of office music for Easter and Holy Week.
Gradualia II covers Christmas, Epiphany, Easter & Corpus Christi.
For 5 voices
Works at CPDL
| Title | Year | No. | Genre | Subgenre | Vo. | Voices |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adoramus te | 1605 | 26 | Sacred | Consort songs | 1 | A |
| Adorna thalamum tuum | 1605 | 63 | Sacred | Motets | 3 | ATT |
| Alleluia. Ave Maria - Virga Jesse floruit | 1605 | 20 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Alleluia. Vespere autem Sabbathi | 1605 | 58 | Sacred | Motets | 3 | SAT |
| Alma Redemptoris Mater | 1605 | 45 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | ATTB |
| Angelus Domini descendit | 1605 | 60 | Sacred | Motets | 3 | ATT |
| Assumpta est Maria | 1605 | 24 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Ave Maria | 1605 | 14 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Ave Regina coelorum | 1605 | 46 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | AATB |
| Ave maris stella | 1605 | 56 | Sacred | Motets | 3 | ATB |
| Ave verum corpus | 1605 | 37 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | SATB |
| Beata es, Virgo Maria | 1605 | 10 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Beata viscera | 1605 | 11 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Beati mundo corde | 1605 | 32 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SSATB, AATTB |
| Benedicta et venerabilis | 1605 | 7 (nos. 7-8 in David Fraser's edition) | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB, SSATB |
| Christus resurgens | 1605 | 42 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | ATTB |
| Cibavit eos | 1605 | 33 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | ATTB,SATB |
| Deo gratias | 1605 | 52 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | ATTB,ATBB |
| Diffusa est gratia - Propter veritatem - Vultum tuum | 1605 | 22 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Ecce quam bonum | 1605 | 41 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | AATT |
| Ecce virgo concipiet | 1605 | 15 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Felix es, sacra Virgo Maria | 1605 | 9 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Felix namque es | 1605 | 19 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Gaude Maria | 1605 | 21 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Gaudeamus omnes in Domino (All Saints) | 1605 | 29 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SSATB, AATTB |
| Gaudeamus omnes in Domino (Assumption) | 1605 | 23 (antiphon) & no. 6 (verse & doxology) | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Haec dies a 3 | 1605 | 59 | Sacred | Motets | 3 | SAT, ATT, SAB |
| Hodie beata Virgo | 1605 | 51 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | ATTB |
| In manus tuas | 1605 | 47 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | AATB |
| Justorum animae | 1605 | 31 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SSATB, AATTB |
| Laetania | 1605 | 48 | Sacred | Litanies | 4 | SATB |
| Memento salutis auctor | 1605 | 55 | Sacred | Motets | 3 | ATB |
| Nunc dimittis (Gradualia) | 1605 | 4 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| O gloriosa Domina | 1605 | 54 | Sacred | Motets | 3 | ATT |
| O sacrum convivium | 1605 | 39 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | ATTB,SATB |
| O salutaris hostia (Gradualia) | 1605 | 38 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | ATTB |
| Oculi omnium | 1605 | 34 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | ATTB |
| Optimam partem elegit | 1605 | 25 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Pange lingua gloriosi | 1605 | 40 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | ATTB |
| Plorans plorabit | 1605 | 28 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | ATTBB |
| Post dies octo - Mane nobiscum | 1605 | 61 | Sacred | Motets | 3 | ATT |
| Post partum Virgo | 1605 | 18 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Propter veritatem - Alleluia - Assumpta est Maria | 1605 | 23 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Quem terra, pontus, aethera | 1605 | 53 | Sacred | Motets | 3 | ATB |
| Quotiescumque manducabitis | 1605 | 36 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | ATTB |
| Regina coeli laetare | 1605 | 57 | Sacred | Motets | 3 | SAT |
| Responsum accepit Simeon | 1605 | 5 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB,ATTBB |
| Rorate caeli desuper | 1605 | 12 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Sacerdotes Domini | 1605 | 35 | Sacred | Offertories | 4 | SATB |
| Salve Regina (1605) | 1605 | 44 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | ATTB |
| Salve sancta parens | 1605 | 6 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB,SATBB |
| Salve sola Dei genitrix | 1605 | 49 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | SSST |
| Senex puerum portabat (a 5) | 1605 | 3 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SSATB |
| Senex puerum portabat a 4 | 1605 | 50 | Sacred | Motets | ||
| Speciosus forma | 1605 | 17, plus verse from vol. 1 no. 6 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Suscepimus Deus - Justitia - Magnus Dominus | 1605 | 1 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB, SAATB |
| Suscepimus Deus - Sicut audivimus | 1605 | 1-2 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB, SAATB |
| Timete Dominum | 1605 | 30 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SSATB |
| Tollite portas | 1605 | 13 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |
| Unam petii a Domino | 1605 | 27 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SSATB |
| Virgo Dei genitrix | 1605 | 8 (nos. 7-8 in David Fraser's edition) | Sacred | Graduals | 5 | SATTB, SSATB |
| Visita quaesumus | 1605 | 43 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | SSAT,AATB |
| Vultum tuum | 1605 | 16, plus verse & doxology from vol. 1 no. 6 | Sacred | Motets | 5 | SATTB |