William Byrd (/bɜːrd/; birth date variously given as c.1539/40 or 1543 – 4 July 1623, by the Julian calendar, 14 July 1623, by the Gregorian calendar) was an English composer of the Renaissance. He wrote in many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard (the so-called Virginalist school), and consort music. He produced sacred music for use in Anglican services, although he himself became a Roman Catholic in later life and wrote Catholic sacred music as well.
Birth and origins
Thanks largely to the research of John Harley, knowledge of Byrd's biography has expanded in recent years. According to Harley, Thomas Byrd, the grandson of Richard Byrd of Ingatestone, Essex, probably moved to London in the 15th century. Thereafter succeeding generations of the family are described as gentlemen. William Byrd was born in London, the son of another Thomas Byrd about whom nothing further is known, and his wife, Margery. The specific year of Byrd's birth is uncertain. In his will, dated 15 November 1622, he describes himself as "in the 80th year of my age", suggesting a birthdate of 1542 or 1543. However a document dated 2 October 1598 written in his own hand states that he is "58 yeares or ther abouts", indicating an earlier birthdate of 1539 or 1540. Byrd had two brothers, Symond and John, who became London merchants, and four sisters, Alice, Barbara, Mary, and Martha.
Byrd: Gradualia Book 1 (1605) - Tollite portas / Ave Maria
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Byrd: Gradualia Book 1 (1605) - Tollite portas / Ave Maria · The Cardinall's Musick · Andrew Carwood
Byrd: Early Latin Church Music; Propers for Lady Mass in Advent
℗ 1997 ASV Ltd.
Released on: 1997-01-01
Producer: David Skinner
Studio Personnel, Engineer: Martin Haskell
Composer: William Byrd
Author: Bible
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published: 28 Jul 2018
Byrd Tollite Portas Score Alto
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Link to Practice Parts for Byrd's "Tollite portas"
Alto Choir Part Practice: "Tollite portas" by William Byrd (1540-- 1623), is from his 1605 "Gradualia" publication which includes the five-voice motet. It is used as the Gradual for the Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin in Advent
Tollite portas, principes, vestras, et elevamini portae aeternales, et introibit Rex gloriae.
Quis ascendet in montem Domini, aut quis stabit in loco sancto ejus? Innocens manibus et mundo corde. Alleluia.
Lift up your gates, O ye princes; and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of glory shall enter in.
Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord, or who shall stand in His holy place? Th...
published: 10 Nov 2012
Tollite Portas
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Tollite Portas · Hubert Velten
Gregorian Chants For Marian Festivals
℗ 2005 Capriccio
Released on: 2005-01-01
Artist: Manfred Wastl
Choir: CantArte Regensburg
Conductor: Hubert Velten
Composer: Anonymous
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published: 12 Apr 2014
William Byrd - Attollite portas. Deller
William Byrd's sacred motet 'Attollite portas' - 'Lift up your heads, o gates'. Score for SATTTB, words from Psalm 24.
Deller Consort directed by Mark Deller singing a cappella:
Rosemary Hardy, Elizabeth Lane - soprano
Mark Deller, Christopher Royall - countertenor
Paul Elliott, Rogers Covey-Crump - tenor
Maurice Bevan - baritone
Michael George - bass
Attollite portas, principes, vestras, et elevamini, portæ æternales, et introibit rex gloriæ.
Quis est iste rex gloriæ? Dominus fortis et potens, Dominus potens in prælio.
Quis est iste rex gloriæ? Dominus virtutum ipse est rex gloriæ.
Gloria . . .
- - - -
Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in.
Who is the King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, m...
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Byrd: Gradualia Book 1 (1605) - Tollite portas / Ave Maria · The Cardinall's Musick · Andrew Carwood
Byrd: Early ...
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Byrd: Gradualia Book 1 (1605) - Tollite portas / Ave Maria · The Cardinall's Musick · Andrew Carwood
Byrd: Early Latin Church Music; Propers for Lady Mass in Advent
℗ 1997 ASV Ltd.
Released on: 1997-01-01
Producer: David Skinner
Studio Personnel, Engineer: Martin Haskell
Composer: William Byrd
Author: Bible
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Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group
Byrd: Gradualia Book 1 (1605) - Tollite portas / Ave Maria · The Cardinall's Musick · Andrew Carwood
Byrd: Early Latin Church Music; Propers for Lady Mass in Advent
℗ 1997 ASV Ltd.
Released on: 1997-01-01
Producer: David Skinner
Studio Personnel, Engineer: Martin Haskell
Composer: William Byrd
Author: Bible
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Link to Practice Parts for Byrd's "Tollite portas"
Alto Choir Par...
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Link to Practice Parts for Byrd's "Tollite portas"
Alto Choir Part Practice: "Tollite portas" by William Byrd (1540-- 1623), is from his 1605 "Gradualia" publication which includes the five-voice motet. It is used as the Gradual for the Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin in Advent
Tollite portas, principes, vestras, et elevamini portae aeternales, et introibit Rex gloriae.
Quis ascendet in montem Domini, aut quis stabit in loco sancto ejus? Innocens manibus et mundo corde. Alleluia.
Lift up your gates, O ye princes; and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of glory shall enter in.
Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord, or who shall stand in His holy place? The innocent in hands and clean of heart.
Alleluia.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9SD3GZ81VdgJURJJKGQC3PbH--nmHqRs&feature=view_all
Link to Practice Parts for Byrd's "Tollite portas"
Alto Choir Part Practice: "Tollite portas" by William Byrd (1540-- 1623), is from his 1605 "Gradualia" publication which includes the five-voice motet. It is used as the Gradual for the Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin in Advent
Tollite portas, principes, vestras, et elevamini portae aeternales, et introibit Rex gloriae.
Quis ascendet in montem Domini, aut quis stabit in loco sancto ejus? Innocens manibus et mundo corde. Alleluia.
Lift up your gates, O ye princes; and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of glory shall enter in.
Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord, or who shall stand in His holy place? The innocent in hands and clean of heart.
Alleluia.
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Tollite Portas · Hubert Velten
Gregorian Chants For Marian Festivals
℗ 2005 Capriccio
Released on: 2005-01-01
Artis...
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Tollite Portas · Hubert Velten
Gregorian Chants For Marian Festivals
℗ 2005 Capriccio
Released on: 2005-01-01
Artist: Manfred Wastl
Choir: CantArte Regensburg
Conductor: Hubert Velten
Composer: Anonymous
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Tollite Portas · Hubert Velten
Gregorian Chants For Marian Festivals
℗ 2005 Capriccio
Released on: 2005-01-01
Artist: Manfred Wastl
Choir: CantArte Regensburg
Conductor: Hubert Velten
Composer: Anonymous
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William Byrd's sacred motet 'Attollite portas' - 'Lift up your heads, o gates'. Score for SATTTB, words from Psalm 24.
Deller Consort directed by Mark Deller...
William Byrd's sacred motet 'Attollite portas' - 'Lift up your heads, o gates'. Score for SATTTB, words from Psalm 24.
Deller Consort directed by Mark Deller singing a cappella:
Rosemary Hardy, Elizabeth Lane - soprano
Mark Deller, Christopher Royall - countertenor
Paul Elliott, Rogers Covey-Crump - tenor
Maurice Bevan - baritone
Michael George - bass
Attollite portas, principes, vestras, et elevamini, portæ æternales, et introibit rex gloriæ.
Quis est iste rex gloriæ? Dominus fortis et potens, Dominus potens in prælio.
Quis est iste rex gloriæ? Dominus virtutum ipse est rex gloriæ.
Gloria . . .
- - - -
Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in.
Who is the King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle.
Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory.
Glory be to the Father . . .
William Byrd's sacred motet 'Attollite portas' - 'Lift up your heads, o gates'. Score for SATTTB, words from Psalm 24.
Deller Consort directed by Mark Deller singing a cappella:
Rosemary Hardy, Elizabeth Lane - soprano
Mark Deller, Christopher Royall - countertenor
Paul Elliott, Rogers Covey-Crump - tenor
Maurice Bevan - baritone
Michael George - bass
Attollite portas, principes, vestras, et elevamini, portæ æternales, et introibit rex gloriæ.
Quis est iste rex gloriæ? Dominus fortis et potens, Dominus potens in prælio.
Quis est iste rex gloriæ? Dominus virtutum ipse est rex gloriæ.
Gloria . . .
- - - -
Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in.
Who is the King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle.
Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory.
Glory be to the Father . . .
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Byrd: Gradualia Book 1 (1605) - Tollite portas / Ave Maria · The Cardinall's Musick · Andrew Carwood
Byrd: Early Latin Church Music; Propers for Lady Mass in Advent
℗ 1997 ASV Ltd.
Released on: 1997-01-01
Producer: David Skinner
Studio Personnel, Engineer: Martin Haskell
Composer: William Byrd
Author: Bible
Auto-generated by YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9SD3GZ81VdgJURJJKGQC3PbH--nmHqRs&feature=view_all
Link to Practice Parts for Byrd's "Tollite portas"
Alto Choir Part Practice: "Tollite portas" by William Byrd (1540-- 1623), is from his 1605 "Gradualia" publication which includes the five-voice motet. It is used as the Gradual for the Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin in Advent
Tollite portas, principes, vestras, et elevamini portae aeternales, et introibit Rex gloriae.
Quis ascendet in montem Domini, aut quis stabit in loco sancto ejus? Innocens manibus et mundo corde. Alleluia.
Lift up your gates, O ye princes; and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of glory shall enter in.
Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord, or who shall stand in His holy place? The innocent in hands and clean of heart.
Alleluia.
Provided to YouTube by NAXOS of America
Tollite Portas · Hubert Velten
Gregorian Chants For Marian Festivals
℗ 2005 Capriccio
Released on: 2005-01-01
Artist: Manfred Wastl
Choir: CantArte Regensburg
Conductor: Hubert Velten
Composer: Anonymous
Auto-generated by YouTube.
William Byrd's sacred motet 'Attollite portas' - 'Lift up your heads, o gates'. Score for SATTTB, words from Psalm 24.
Deller Consort directed by Mark Deller singing a cappella:
Rosemary Hardy, Elizabeth Lane - soprano
Mark Deller, Christopher Royall - countertenor
Paul Elliott, Rogers Covey-Crump - tenor
Maurice Bevan - baritone
Michael George - bass
Attollite portas, principes, vestras, et elevamini, portæ æternales, et introibit rex gloriæ.
Quis est iste rex gloriæ? Dominus fortis et potens, Dominus potens in prælio.
Quis est iste rex gloriæ? Dominus virtutum ipse est rex gloriæ.
Gloria . . .
- - - -
Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in.
Who is the King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle.
Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory.
Glory be to the Father . . .
William Byrd (/bɜːrd/; birth date variously given as c.1539/40 or 1543 – 4 July 1623, by the Julian calendar, 14 July 1623, by the Gregorian calendar) was an English composer of the Renaissance. He wrote in many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard (the so-called Virginalist school), and consort music. He produced sacred music for use in Anglican services, although he himself became a Roman Catholic in later life and wrote Catholic sacred music as well.
Birth and origins
Thanks largely to the research of John Harley, knowledge of Byrd's biography has expanded in recent years. According to Harley, Thomas Byrd, the grandson of Richard Byrd of Ingatestone, Essex, probably moved to London in the 15th century. Thereafter succeeding generations of the family are described as gentlemen. William Byrd was born in London, the son of another Thomas Byrd about whom nothing further is known, and his wife, Margery. The specific year of Byrd's birth is uncertain. In his will, dated 15 November 1622, he describes himself as "in the 80th year of my age", suggesting a birthdate of 1542 or 1543. However a document dated 2 October 1598 written in his own hand states that he is "58 yeares or ther abouts", indicating an earlier birthdate of 1539 or 1540. Byrd had two brothers, Symond and John, who became London merchants, and four sisters, Alice, Barbara, Mary, and Martha.