Edition Michael Procter

Title	Catalogue number	Price
Byrd, William (c. 1540-1623)
8 motets for male voices	EMP0689	€15.00
ATTBB	ISMN M-2056-0689-3
An anthology of pieces intended for male voices. It includes several of the 'Jerusalem' or political motets. The works represented are: Emendemus in melius (1575), Ne irascaris Domine, Vide Domine, Tribulationes civitatum and Domine tu jurasti (1589), Domine exaudi orationem meam and Haec dicit Dominus (1591) and Unam petii (1605). Most of these are not available in modern performing editions (except in our catalogue).
This item includes: EMP0577 Emendemus in melius EMP0043 Ne irascaris Domine EMP0578 Vide Domine EMP0417 Tribulationes civitatum EMP0576 Domine tu jurasti EMP0414 Domine exaudi EMP0416 Haec dicit Dominus EMP0418 Unam petii
Alleluia. Ave Maria.	EMP1031	€3.50
SSATB Votive Mass BVM - Introitus	ISMN M-2056-1031-9
The Greater Alleluia for the Mass of the Annunciation when this falls in Eastertide. Byrd printed it out of order in the Gradualia but in the form in which it there appears it belongs to the Annunciation. Here at original high-clef pitch.
Ave verum corpus	EMP0034	€2.00
SATB Eucharist - Motet general	ISMN M-2056-0034-1
One of the best-known and favourite pieces from the great Gradualia. The quasi-homophony found in so many highly expressive Renaissance pieces gives it an extraordinary intensity.
Beati mundo corde	EMP0526	€3.50
SSATB All Saints (November 1) - Communion	ISMN M-2056-0526-1
One of the loveliest of the short pieces in Byrd's great Gradualia. The text is part of the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount. This version, a fourth lower than the original, has the catalogue number EMP0526.
Alternative version(s): EMP0609 Down a tone
Beati mundo corde	EMP0609	€3.50
SSATB All Saints (November 1) - Communion	ISMN M-2056-0609-1
One of the loveliest of the short pieces in Byrd's great Gradualia. The text is part of the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount.This high pitch version, a tone lower than the original, has catalogue number EMP0609.
Alternative version(s): EMP0526 Down a fourth
Diffusa est gratia	EMP0036	€2.00
SMATB Votive Mass BVM - Offertorium	ISMN M-2056-0036-5
This beautiful miniature (lasting about a minute) is found in the first book of Byrd's Gradualia. It is one of the tricky items, being used twice, and although Byrd printed it as the opening section of the long Gradual-Tract group for the Annunciation (in Lent), it may well have been composed initially as the Offertory for the Purification. Byrd failed to provide the piece with a final close, so I give it with an optional cadence.
Alternative version(s): EMP0765 With an editorial additional final section
Diffusa est gratia	EMP0765	€2.00
SSATB Marian Feasts - Offertorium	ISMN M-2056-0765-4
This lovely piece is one of the few with which Byrd made mistakes in his immense Gradualia: the piece is provided in the short form required when it is sung in the Gradual music for the Annunciation and the Assumption, and lacks the end of the text when it is the Offertory. I have provided a final cadence and an alternative end with the complete text.
Alternative version(s): EMP0036 With an optional final cadence
Domine exaudi	EMP0414	€3.50
SAATB Penitential - Psalm-Motet	ISMN M-2056-0414-1
A lengthy setting of the first 2 verses of Ps. 142.
This item is included in: EMP0689 8 motets for male voices
Domine tu jurasti	EMP0576	€3.50
SATBaB Penitential - Motet general	ISMN M-2056-0576-6
Obviously a politically motivated piece - the text is non-liturgical, and the translation in part reads 'deliver us from the hand of Pharaoh...and from bondage under the Egyptians.'
This item is included in: EMP0689 8 motets for male voices
Emendemus in melius	EMP0039	€2.00
SATBaB Penitential - Motet general	ISMN M-2056-0039-6
Transposed down a tone from the original high pitch. Also available a 4th lower as indicated by the high clefs of the original.
Alternative version(s): EMP0577 Simple version, down a fourth EMP1049 Responsory form
Emendemus in melius	EMP0577	€2.00
SATTB Penitential - Motet general	ISMN M-2056-0577-3
Rightly one of Byrd's best-known pieces, almost homophonic and most effective. Transposed down a 4th from the high-clefs original. Also available at a higher pitch.
Alternative version(s): EMP0039 Simple version, down a tone EMP1049 Responsory form
This item is included in: EMP0689 8 motets for male voices
Emendemus in melius	EMP1049	€3.50
SATTB Ash Wednesday - Respond	ISMN M-2056-1049-4
A version of the piece laid out to permit its liturgical use as a Responsory either on the First Sunday in Lent or, with an added Gloria Patri, during the Imposition of Ashes on Ash Wednesday. Transposed down a 4th from the high-clefs original. Available on request at a higher pitch.
Alternative version(s): EMP0039 Simple version, down a tone EMP0577 Simple version, down a fourth
Gradualia 02: Christmas Mass	EMP0710	€4.80
SATB Christmas - Mass Propers	ISMN M-2056-0710-4
This item is included in: EMP0709 Gradualia 02: Christmas Mass and Office
Gradualia 02: Christmas Mass and Office	EMP0709	€6.50
SATB Christmas - Mass Propers	ISMN M-2056-0709-8
It is with this splendid collection of Christmastide music that Byrd's second book of Gradualia opens. It includes the complete Propers for the principal (third) mass of Christmas Day, which are used throughout the Octave, together with settings of Hodie Christus natus est (Magnificat Antiphon), O magnum misterium/Beata Virgo (Matins Respond) and O admirabile commercium (Magnificat Antiphon for the Circumcision (Jan. 1)). The Mass propers and the Office pieces are available separately
This item includes: EMP0710 Gradualia 02: Christmas Mass EMP0711 Gradualia 02: Music for the Christmastide Office
Gradualia 02: Music for the Christmastide Office	EMP0711	€4.80
SATB Christmas Octave - Magnificat Antiphon	ISMN M-2056-0711-1
This item is included in: EMP0709 Gradualia 02: Christmas Mass and Office
Gradualia 05: In Festo Purificationis (BMV)	EMP0717	€8.30
SMATB Purification BVM, Candlemas, Presentation of Christ (February 2) - Mass Propers	ISMN M-2056-0717-3
It is with this collection of pieces that Byrd's first book of Gradualia opens. These are the Propers for the Mass of the Purification: Suscepimus (versions for Introit and Gradual, with the Antiphon reused), Alleluia: Senex puerum and Tract: Nunc Dimittis (for when the Feast falls after Septuagesima), Offertory: Diffusa est gratia and Communion: Responsum accepit Simeon. Diffusa est gratia is reused from its position as Gradual verse for the Feasts of the Annunciation and Assumption, but Byrd omits to set the final phrase or to provide a perfect cadence, which the editor has provided.
Gradualia 14: Nativity BVM	EMP0021	€6.50
SSATB Nativity BVM (September 8) - Mass Propers	ISMN M-2056-0021-1
The archetypal Mary Mass, providing most of the familiar segments re-used in many of the other Propers. Its atypical ad aequales scoring (TrMATBa) means it can be transposed to suit: I offer it at two standard ranges, either a tone or a fourth lower than the original (equivalent to SATBaB for mixed or male voices).
Alternative version(s): EMP0764 A fourth lower than original pitch
Gradualia 14: Nativity BVM	EMP0764	€6.50
SSATB Nativity BVM (September 8) - Mass Propers	ISMN M-2056-0764-7
The archetypal Mary Mass, providing most of the familiar segments re-used in many of the other Propers. Its atypical ad aequales scoring (TrMATBa) means it can be transposed to suit: I offer it at two standard ranges, either a tone or a fourth lower than the original (equivalent to SATBaB for mixed or male voices).
Alternative version(s): EMP0021 A tone lower than original pitch
Gradualia 21: Mass for the Feast of Mary, Mother of God (Jan. 1)	EMP0287	€6.50
SSATB Mary, Mother of God (January 1) - Mass Propers	ISMN M-2056-0287-1
The Feast of Mary, Mother of God, is celebrated on January 1st, replacing the Circumcision. The Feast was of course unknown in Byrd's Day but the Proper is all in the Gradualia and has been assembled here by Michael Procter, just as Byrd intended should be done for other Marian feasts.
Gradualia for SS Peter and Paul. INT Nunc scio vere; GRAD Constitues eos principes; ALL Tu es Petrus; OFF Constitues eos principes; COMM Tu es Petrus.	EMP0661	€5.90
SSATTB SS Peter and Paul (June 29) - Mass Propers	ISMN M-2056-0661-9
For the two feasts of St Peter, this and St Peter's Chains, Byrd provided the only 6-voice Propers in his great Gradualia - an obvious homage to the Roman Catholic Church, to which he remained loyal despite the very real dangers for Catholics in England at the time. The music is grand, as befits its intention.
Haec dicit Dominus	EMP0416	€3.50
SATTB Holy Innocents (December 28)	ISMN M-2056-0416-5
One of the most extreme of Byrd's 'Jerusalem' motets.
This item is included in: EMP0689 8 motets for male voices
Libera me Domine	EMP0042	€2.50
SAATB Penitential - Motet general (Manuscript edition)	ISMN M-2056-0042-6
This motet from the Cantiones Sacrae of 1575 sets part of the text from Job set as a reading at Matins for the Dead, and it is significant that the setting is followed in the print by 'Peccantem me quotidie', the Respond to the reading. Joseph Kerman describes the piece as 'antiquated' and it is certainly an earlier work, although it must then be one of the first to experiment with double counterpoint. The original scoring is SAATB and this manuscript edition offers the piece a third higher. It will shortly appear be typeset and thus available at the original pitch and in other transpositions.
Missa 3 vocum	EMP1000	€6.50
ATB General Use - Mass Ordinary	ISMN M-2056-1000-5
The well-known 'Mass for three voices' is an ad aequales piece (with 'close-together' clefs, in this case MAT) and is available at various pitches. This version is at the original pitch, suitable for male voices.
Alternative version(s): EMP1001 A third higer EMP1002 A fifth higher EMP1003 A fifth lower
Missa 3 vocum	EMP1001	€6.50
SAT General Use - Mass Ordinary	ISMN M-2056-1001-2
The well-known 'Mass for three voices' is an ad aequales piece (with 'close-together' clefs, in this case MAT) and is available at various pitches. This version is a third higher than the original pitch.
Alternative version(s): EMP1000 original-pitch EMP1002 A fifth higher EMP1003 A fifth lower
Missa 3 vocum	EMP1002	€6.50
SSA General Use - Mass Ordinary	ISMN M-2056-1002-9
The well-known 'Mass for three voices' is an ad aequales piece (with 'close-together' clefs, in this case MAT) and is available at various pitches. This version is a fifth higher than the original pitch, suitable for female or boys' voices.
Alternative version(s): EMP1000 original-pitch EMP1001 A third higer EMP1003 A fifth lower
Missa 3 vocum	EMP1003	€6.50
TBaB General Use - Mass Ordinary	ISMN M-2056-1003-6
The well-known 'Mass for three voices' is an ad aequales piece (with 'close-together' clefs, in this case MAT) and is available at various pitches. This version is a fifth lower than the original pitch, suitable for male voices.
Alternative version(s): EMP1000 original-pitch EMP1001 A third higer EMP1002 A fifth higher
Missa 4 vocum	EMP0273	€7.50
SATB General Use - Mass Ordinary	ISMN M-2056-0273-4
The well-known 'Mass for four voices' is a high-clef piece and is available at various pitches (here a semitone lower than the original). The Editor considers the piece should be sung down a fourth or a fifth by ATTB/ATBaB.
Alternative version(s): EMP0750 Original pitch EMP0615 A minor third lower than original pitch EMP0616 A fourth lower than original pitch EMP0691 A fifth lower than original pitch
Missa 4 vocum	EMP0615	€7.50
SATB General Use - Mass Ordinary	ISMN M-2056-0615-2
The mass is here transposed down a third, to a pitch suitable for mixed voices.
Alternative version(s): EMP0750 Original pitch EMP0273 A semitone lower than original pitch EMP0616 A fourth lower than original pitch EMP0691 A fifth lower than original pitch
Missa 4 vocum	EMP0616	€7.50
ATTB General Use - Mass Ordinary	ISMN M-2056-0616-9
The mass is here transposed down a fourth
Alternative version(s): EMP0750 Original pitch EMP0273 A semitone lower than original pitch EMP0615 A minor third lower than original pitch EMP0691 A fifth lower than original pitch
Missa 4 vocum	EMP0691	€7.50
ATBB General Use - Mass Ordinary	ISMN M-2056-0691-6
The mass is here transposed down a fifth, the pitch at which our editor considers it rightly belongs.
Alternative version(s): EMP0750 Original pitch EMP0273 A semitone lower than original pitch EMP0615 A minor third lower than original pitch EMP0616 A fourth lower than original pitch
Missa 4 vocum	EMP0750	€7.50
SATB General Use - Mass Ordinary	ISMN M-2056-0750-0
The well-known 'Mass for four voices' is a high-clef piece and is available at various pitches. The Editor considers the piece should be sung down a fourth or a fifth by ATTB/ATBaB. This version is at the original high pitch.
Alternative version(s): EMP0273 A semitone lower than original pitch EMP0615 A minor third lower than original pitch EMP0616 A fourth lower than original pitch EMP0691 A fifth lower than original pitch
Ne irascaris Domine	EMP0043	€4.80
SATBaB Penitential - Motet general	ISMN M-2056-0043-3
A beautiful and powerful piece, its text derived from the penitential Advent Prose 'Rorate coeli desuper'. Its unremitting sombre mood and passionate intensity make it a starkly challenging piece for those who think Christmas carols and 'Jingle bells' appropriate for Advent...
This item is included in: EMP0689 8 motets for male voices
O admirabile commercium	EMP0508	€2.00
SSAB Circumcision of Our Lord (Jan. 1) and Christmastide - Magnificat Antiphon	ISMN M-2056-0508-7
Less well-known Christmas piece with demanding ranges for SSA (or T with top Bflat)
O God that guides	EMP0061	€4.80
S solo,SATTB instr. and SSATTB chorus Non-liturgical (Finale)	ISMN M-2056-0061-7
A splendid verse anthem for New Year's Day, ideally for viols and voices but suitable for other instruments (please contact me for parts in suitable clefs.) It has two verses, the second closing with a short Amen.
O magnum misterium	EMP0507	€2.00
SAABa Christmas - Respond	ISMN M-2056-0507-0
Well-known Christmas piece
Alternative version(s): EMP1035 A tone higher than the original. EMP1036 A third higher than the original.
O magnum misterium	EMP1035	€2.00
SAABa Christmas - Respond	ISMN M-2056-1035-7
Well-known Christmas piece, here a tone higher than the original.
Alternative version(s): EMP0507 Original pitch EMP1036 A third higher than the original.
O magnum misterium	EMP1036	€2.00
SAABa Christmas - Respond	ISMN M-2056-1036-4
Well-known Christmas piece, here a third higher than the original.
Alternative version(s): EMP0507 Original pitch EMP1035 A tone higher than the original.
Pange lingua	EMP0047	€1.50
SATB Corpus Christi - Hymn (Manuscript edition)	ISMN M-2056-0047-1
Byrd quotes briefly the less familiar Mode I chant, and sets verses 2,4 and 5 (Tantum ergo), and provides a final Amen.
Rorate coeli desuper	EMP1020	€3.50
SATBaBa Votive Mass BVM - Introitus	ISMN M-2056-1020-3
The Introit for the Votive Mass of Our Lady in Advent, which gave its name to the 'Rorate' masses kept in Advent. Given here a 4th lower than the high-clef original.
Alternative version(s): EMP1025 Original pitch EMP1023 A tone lower than the original.
Rorate coeli desuper	EMP1023	€3.50
SATBaBa Votive Mass BVM - Introitus	ISMN M-2056-1023-4
The Introit for the Votive Mass of Our Lady in Advent, which gave its name to the 'Rorate' masses kept in Advent. Given here a tone lower than the high-clef original.
Alternative version(s): EMP1025 Original pitch EMP1020 A 4th lower than the original.
Rorate coeli desuper	EMP1025	€3.50
SSATB Votive Mass BVM - Introitus	ISMN M-2056-1025-8
The Introit for the Votive Mass of Our Lady in Advent, which gave its name to the 'Rorate' masses kept in Advent. Given here at original high-clef pitch.
Alternative version(s): EMP1023 A tone lower than the original. EMP1020 A 4th lower than the original.
Salve Regina (1605)	EMP0049	€2.00
SATB Holy Trinity to the Saturday before Advent - Marian Antiphon	ISMN M-2056-0049-5
The simple setting from the Gradualia.
Solve iubente Deo	EMP0527	€2.00
SSATTB St. Peter in Chains (S. Petri ad Vincula)(August 1) - Magnificat Antiphon	ISMN M-2056-0527-8
A magnificent piece, one of the few for 6 voices in the Gradualia associated with the feasts of St Peter. The text is both Magnificat Antiphon at Vespers and Alleluia verse in the Mass. Byrd's print omits almost all the text for obvious political reasons; it has been reconstructed here.
Though Amaryllis dance in green	EMP0415	€2.00
SATBaB Secular	ISMN M-2056-0415-8
One of Byrd's most popular, but by no means easier madrigals. Offered a fourth lower than the original.
Tribulationes civitatum	EMP0417	€4.80
SATTB Penitential	ISMN M-2056-0417-2
Another of Byrd's 'Jerusalem' motets.
This item is included in: EMP0689 8 motets for male voices
Unam petii	EMP0418	€3.50
SATTB Penitential	ISMN M-2056-0418-9
A further 'Jerusalem' motet, this one printed in the Gradualia, and incorporating a daring diatribe against the King.
This item is included in: EMP0689 8 motets for male voices
Vide Domine	EMP0578	€3.50
SATTB	ISMN M-2056-0578-0
One of the most extreme of Byrd's 'Jerusalem' motets.Vide Domine is a non-liturgical text also set by other composers - including Clemens, and Jean Lafage (also published in Edition Michael Procter).
This item is included in: EMP0689 8 motets for male voices
Why do I use my paper, ink and pen	EMP0053	€2.00
SATB St Edmund Campion (December 6)	ISMN M-2056-0053-2
Text by St. Henry Walpole on the death of Campion. Byrd's setting circulated widely in manuscript as a Consort Song (e.g. in the Dow partbooks) but was printed in Psalms, Sonets and Songs (1588) in a vocal version.

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