Editing William Byrd (section)

===Psalms, songs and sonnets (1611)===
Byrd's last collection of English songs was'' Psalms, Songs and Sonnets'', published in 1611 (when Byrd was over 70) and dedicated to [[Francis Clifford, 4th Earl of Cumberland]], who later also received the dedication of [[Thomas Campion]]'s'' First Book of Songs'' in about 1613. The layout of the set broadly follows the pattern of Byrd's 1589 set, being laid out in sections for three, four, five and six parts like its predecessor and embracing an even wider miscellany of styles (perhaps reflecting the influence of another [[Jacobean era|Jacobean]] publication, [[Michael East (composer)|Michael East]]'s ''Third Set of Books'' (1610)). Byrd's set includes two consort fantasias (a4 and a6) as well as eleven English motets, most of them setting prose texts from the Bible. These include some of his most famous compositions, notably ''Praise our Lord, all ye Gentiles'' (a6), ''This day Christ was born'' (a6) and ''Have mercy upon me'' (a6), which employs alternating phrases with verse and full scoring and was circulated as a church anthem. There are more carols set in verse and burden form as in the 1589 set as well as lighter three- and four-part songs in Byrd's "sonnets and pastorals" style. Some items are, however, more tinged with madrigalian influence than their counterparts in the earlier set, making clear that the short-lived madrigal vogue of the 1590s had not completely passed Byrd by. Many of the songs follow, and develop further, types already established in the 1589 collection.