The relationship between Tallis and Byrd was
personal as well as professional and in 1575 they jointly published
Cantiones Sacrae, 34 motets dedicated to Elizabeth I.
Although Byrd was Catholic in Protestant England, he had no
problems with his superiors. Many of his patrons, such as the Earl of Worcester, were Catholics as well, and when England momentarily returned to Roman Church he had no shortage of music to accompany the revival; he had been composing music for underground catholic circles for years. He composed for every branch of music; Consort, Sacred, Keyboard music. He left no instrument without a piece of his music. Byrd's last publication was Psalmes, Songs and Sonnets was in 1611, and he died in 1623.
Byrd's music would go on to affect and shape much of later English music. He music shows the impressions of the Italian, Palestrina, and the Spainish school, Vittoria.
Some of Byrd's Choral works are:
  Haec Dies
is a six part motet for Easter or the season of Easter.
- Ave Verum Corpus
is one of Byrd's Latin motets, as a four part motet for passiontide, it is one of the gems of English
music.
- Between 1592 and 1595 Byrd wrote his three masses for the samll Catholic circles of which he was a part. Each one
contains a mood or feeling as a oppossed to a set melody, and each movement is a variation on that mood.
- Mass for Three Voices written sometime in 1593 or 1594. It is a simple Latin mass written for the small Catholic circles of Byrd's time.
- Mass for Four VoicesThe earliest of the three masses, it was written in 1592.
- Mass for Five Voices The last of the three masses, most likely written in 1594-5. MASS FOR FIVE VOICES with Propers for the Feast of Corpus Christi
- Introit Cibavit eos
- Kyrie
- Gloria
- Gradual Oculi omnium
- Sequence Lauda Sion Salvatorem
- Credo
- Offertory Sacerdotes Domini
- Sanctus
- Benedictus
- Agnus Dei
- Communion Quotiescunque manducabitis
- Processional Pange lingua gloriosi
Marian Masses
- Suscepimus Deus
- Iustitia
- Magnus Dominus
- Sicut audivimus
- Alleluia
- Senex puerum
- Nunc dimittis servum tuum
- Responsum accepit Simeon
- Salve sancta parens
- Alleluia
- Eructavit cor meum
- Benedicta et venerabilis
- Alleluia
- Felix es, sacra virgo
- Beata es, virgo Maria
- Alleluia
- Beata viscera
- Alleluia
- Rorate coeli
- Benedixisti Domine
- Tollite portas
- Ave Maria
- Alleluia
- Ecce virgo concipiet
- Alleluia
- Vultum tuum
- Alleluia
- Speciosus forma
- Alleluia
- Post partum
- Felix namque es
- Alleluia - Ave Maria
- Virga Jesse
- Gaude Maria
- Diffusa est gratia
- Propter veritatem
- Alleluia
- Vultum tuum
- Gaudeamus omnes
- Assumpta est Maria
- Assumpta est Maria
- Optimam partem elegit
Ego sum panis vivus
Ab ortu solis
Alleluia. Cognoverunt discipuli
O sacrum convivium
O salutaris hostia
Bow Thine Ear O Lord
is from the Cantiones Sacrae
O quam gloriosum SSATB
Audivi vocem de caelo SAATB
Teach me, O Lord SSATB & organ
Civitas Sancti Tui (Bow thine ear, O Lord) SATTB & organ
Christe, qui lux es et dies (O Christ who art the light and day) SATBB
Justorum animae SSATB
Cantate Domino SSATB
Arise, Lord, into thy rest SSATB
Come, help, O God SSATB
Miserere Mei SATBB unaccompanied
Rorate caeli desuper SAATB
Sacerdotes Domini SATB
Sing Joyfully SSAATB
Victimae Paschali SSATB
Vigilate SATBarB
Prevent us, O Lord SATB
O magnum mysterium SATB
Exsurge Domine SATB
Laudibus in Sanctis
Domine, salve nos SSATTB
Emendemus in melius SATTB
Laetentur Caeli SATBarB
Ne irascaris SATTB
Praise our Lord all ye gentiles SSATBB
Domine secundum multitudinem SATTB
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