The Dow Partbooks is a collection of five partbooks in Oxford around 1580. The collection includes choral and also instrumental pieces. Robert Dow was a trained calligrapher and the books are unusually easy to read among Tudor manuscripts.
Contents
No.
Title
Composer
Comments
1.
Lamentations a 5
Robert White
(Heth, Teth, Iod, Caph, Lamed. Mem )
2.
Miserere mei Deus
Robert White
3.
Christe qui lux es et dies I
Robert White
4.
Christe qui lux es et dies II
Robert White
5.
Christe qui lux es et dies III
Robert White
6.
Manus tuae fecerunt me
Robert White
7.
Portio mea, Domine
Robert White
8.
Justus es Domine
Robert White
9.
Ne irascaris Domine
William Byrd
10.
O Domine adjuva me
William Byrd
11.
Tribulationes civitatum - Timor et hebetudo - Nos enim pro peccatis
William Byrd
12.
Domine exaudi orationem
William Byrd
13.
Domine praestolamur
William Byrd
14.
Ad te clamamus
Christopher Tye
15.
Omnes gentes, plaudite manibus
Christopher Tye
16.
Esurientes implevit bonis
John Sheppard
17.
Angelus ad pastores ait
Orlando di Lasso
18.
Veni in hortum meum
Orlando di Lasso
19.
O salutaris hostia
Thomas Tallis
20.
Salvator mundi I
Thomas Tallis
21.
Candidi facti sunt
Thomas Tallis
22.
Dum transisset Sabbatum a 5
Robert Johnson
23.
Exaudiat te Dominus
Robert White
24.
Tribulationem et dolorem inveni
Alfonso Ferrabosco I
25.
Non me vincat, Deus meus
Nicholas Strogers
26.
Dum transisset Sabbatum I
John Taverner
27.
Tribulatio proxima est - Contumelias et terrores
William Byrd
28.
Appropinquet deprecatio mea
Robert White
29.
Christus resurgens
John Tailer
30.
O quam gloriosum est regnum - Benedictio et claritas
William Byrd
31.
Tristitia et anxietas - Sed tu, Domine
William Byrd
32.
Apparebit in finem
William Byrd
33.
Audivi vocem
William Byrd
34.
In resurrectione tua
William Byrd
35.
Retribue servo tuo
Robert Parsons
36.
Fac cum servo tuo
William Byrd
37.
Sive vigilem
William Mundy
38.
Christe qui lux es et dies IV
Robert White
39.
Deus venerunt gentes - Posuerunt morticinia
William Byrd
40.
Domine tu jurasti
William Byrd
41.
Exsurge, quare obdormis
William Byrd
42.
O sacrum convivium
Thomas Tallis
43.
Salvator mundi II
Thomas Tallis
44.
Effuderunt sanguinem
William Byrd
Part 3 of Deus venerunt gentes (no.39 above)
45.
Christe qui lux es et dies
William Byrd
46.
Laetentur coeli
William Byrd
47.
Facti sumus opprobrium
William Byrd
Part 4 of Deus venerunt gentes (no.39 above)
48.
Ave Maria
Robert Parsons
49.
Dum transisset Sabbatum
"Roose "
50.
Decantabat populus
Anonymous
51.
Mirabile mysterium
Alfonso Ferrabosco I
52.
Miserere mei Deus
William Byrd
53.
O bone Jesu
Robert Parsons
54.
Vestigia mea dirige
Nathaniel Giles
55.
Lord, who shall dwell
Robert White
numbered 56 in MS; numbers thereafter follow in sequence
56.
The Lord bless us and keep us
Robert White
57.
O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth
William Byrd
58.
Prevent us, O Lord
William Byrd
59.
How long shall mine enemies
William Byrd
60.
O that most rare breast
William Byrd
61.
Come to me grief for ever
William Byrd
62.
In fields abroad
William Byrd
63.
Where fancy fond
William Byrd
64.
Susanna fair (1588)
William Byrd
65.
While Phoebus used to dwell
William Byrd
66.
Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?
William Byrd
67.
La Verginella
William Byrd
68.
I joy not in no earthly bliss
William Byrd
69.
Ah golden hairs
William Byrd
70.
Lord in thy wrath reprove me not
William Byrd
71.
Care for thy soul
William Byrd
72.
Browning
William Byrd
73.
Browning
Clement Woodcock
74.
Miserere
Mallorie
75.
Ascendo ad Patrem
Jean Maillard
attrib. Tye in MS
76.
Rubem quem
Christopher Tye
77.
Susanne un jour
Orlando di Lasso
78.
Madonna somm'accorto
Giacomo Fogliano
attrib. Tye in MS
79.
Pour vous aymer
Philippe van Wilder
80.
De la court
Robert Parsons
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