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William Byrd - Tristitia et anxietas (ATTBB)

$12.00

Newly engraved performing edition by Maxwell Trombley

Details

Voicing: ATTBB

Duration: approx. 10 minutes

Language: Latin

Overview

William Byrd’s Tristitia et anxietas is an intensely expressive five-voice motet, setting a text adapted from Lamentations to convey sorrow, anguish, and spiritual desolation. Through dense imitation and striking harmonic color, Byrd gives musical voice to grief while maintaining a profound sense of restraint and devotion.

First published in Byrd’s Cantiones Sacrae (1589), the motet reflects the deeply expressive sacred style of the composer’s mature Latin works, many of which were written for the private devotional life of England’s recusant Catholic community.

This edition includes both the prima pars and secunda pars (Sed tu, Domine). Either section may be performed independently.

Licensing & Access

Your purchase licenses this downloadable PDF score for unlimited printing and performance by one ensemble or organization. Please do not share or redistribute the file outside your group.

Scores are delivered digitally as a PDF immediately following purchase and are formatted for both print and tablet use.

If you would like to review a watermarked perusal score prior to purchase, feel free to contact me. I will be happy to provide one.

Thank you for supporting independent scholarly editing and helping ensure that carefully prepared editions remain available to the performers who rely on them.

Newly engraved performing edition by Maxwell Trombley

Details

Voicing: ATTBB

Duration: approx. 10 minutes

Language: Latin

Overview

William Byrd’s Tristitia et anxietas is an intensely expressive five-voice motet, setting a text adapted from Lamentations to convey sorrow, anguish, and spiritual desolation. Through dense imitation and striking harmonic color, Byrd gives musical voice to grief while maintaining a profound sense of restraint and devotion.

First published in Byrd’s Cantiones Sacrae (1589), the motet reflects the deeply expressive sacred style of the composer’s mature Latin works, many of which were written for the private devotional life of England’s recusant Catholic community.

This edition includes both the prima pars and secunda pars (Sed tu, Domine). Either section may be performed independently.

Licensing & Access

Your purchase licenses this downloadable PDF score for unlimited printing and performance by one ensemble or organization. Please do not share or redistribute the file outside your group.

Scores are delivered digitally as a PDF immediately following purchase and are formatted for both print and tablet use.

If you would like to review a watermarked perusal score prior to purchase, feel free to contact me. I will be happy to provide one.

Thank you for supporting independent scholarly editing and helping ensure that carefully prepared editions remain available to the performers who rely on them.

About My Editions

My modern performing editions are prepared from early printed sources and edited for clarity, consistency, and rehearsal efficiency. They are intended for ensembles seeking reliable scholarly texts presented in clean, modern layouts.

Each edition includes an inner cover page containing a brief historical foreword, the full text with translation where applicable, editorial comments explaining notational decisions, and a reproduced facsimile page from the original source. To view an example of an editorial cover page, click here.

Editorial work includes careful source comparison, clearly marked accidentals, historically informed text underlay, and engraving designed for practical ensemble use, resulting in scores that are both scholarly reliable and performance ready.

 

Custom Options

If you are interested in a different voicing, key, or format for your ensemble, feel free to get in touch. In some cases, alternate versions can be prepared depending on the work and project schedule.