Glenn Gould - William Byrd "First Pavan and Galliard"

William Byrd "First Pavan and Galliard" Glenn Gould: Piano Photos: Winter scenes around the Medway near Rochester, England. William Byrd William Byrd - Photos by Frank, Belgium taken (1540 or later 1539 - July 4, 1623) was an English composer of the Renaissance. He cultivated many of the current forms in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard (the so-called Virginalists school) and consort music. The greatest English composers of his generation,comparable in stature, his most important continental contemporaries, William Byrd was a versatile composer. Though still a Catholic, loyalty cost him much trouble in times of persecution in England, he was a member of the Chapel Royal, the music for the liturgy of the Church of England and, on a private plane for his fellow Catholics. Byrd's sacred music compositions for the church to the Catholic liturgy and for the separateddesigned for the officially recognized church of England. The first category includes the settings of the fair for three, four and five voices, and a large quantity of other works for the different seasons of the liturgical year. For the Church of England Byrd wrote a great service and three other service settings using the texts of the Anglican liturgy. In addition to these compositions, there are a number of hymns and psalms, settings, and consort songs with sacred texts of one kind or another vowelMusic ...



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