Cantiones Sacrae II (1591)
by William Byrd
Choir - Sheet Music

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Composed by William Byrd. Edited by Alan Brown. Library Volumes. The Byrd Edition Volume 3. Edited by Alan Brown. First published: 1981. Pages: 304. Format: Paperback. Dimensions (mm): 254 x 177 x 19. Choral collection. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #B365. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.B365).

ISBN 9780852493656.

The Liber Secundus Sacrarum Cantionum appeared in November 1591, and was printed, like its predecessor, by Thomas East. Biblical and liturgical sources provided texts for its 21 motets, most of them sombre in tone. The noted scholar Joseph Kerman has observed that in these pieces, Byrd may have been voicing 'prayers, exhortations and protests on behalf of the English Roman Catholic community'.