- William Byrd (1543-1623) - http://carolinanavy.com/fleet2/f2/zclassicalmusic/WilliamByrd(1543-1623)hall/shakespeare1.html
Message board and live chat about the life and works.
- Byrd, William - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03092f.htm
Catholic Encyclopedia article examining life, sacred and secular music, and related composers.
- MIDI World: William Byrd - http://www.midiworld.com/mw%5Fbyrd.htm
Article about music notation, tuning, and interpretation and MIDI audio files of liturgical works, pavans and galliards, other dances, grounds, preludes and fantasies, program music, popular tunes, and other works.
- The Recorder Page: Byrd, William - http://www.iinet.net.au/~nickl/cds/composers/byrdwilliam.html
Discography compiled by Nicholas S. Lander and Christopher Short.
- Byrd, William (1543 - 1623) - http://www.hnh.com/composer/byrd.htm
Brief biography and caricature with summaries of church, vocal, consort, and keyboard music and recommended recordings.
- Byrd, William (1543 - 1623), United Kingdom - http://stevenestrella.com/composers/composerfiles/byrd1623.html
Biographical data, recommended CDs, books and sheet music, bibliography, and links to biographical essays from Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers.
- William Byrd - http://www.hoasm.org/IVM/WilliamByrd.html
Biography, discography, related composers and concepts, background information, and links from the Here as of Sunday Morning radio program on WBAI-FM in New York.
- Classical Music Archies: Byrd - http://www.classicalarchives.com/bios/codm/byrd.html
Biography from the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. Complete solo keyboard works. Over 100 complete files offered in MIDI format.
- Byrd MIDI files - http://www.kunstderfuge.com/byrd.htm
Real player MIDI files (free download). From 'Kunst der Fuge'.
- Byrd, William - http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa/cla/learning/grove.html?record=1448
Biography examining his versatility in composing both secular and sacred vocal music as well as various instrumental works includes summary list of works. From the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
- William Byrd - http://www.classiccat.net/byrd_w/
Biography, links, and directory of MP3 audio files from Classic Cat.
- William Byrd: An Overview - http://www.mfiles.co.uk/Composers/William-Byrd.htm
Biographical essay, related topics, plus samples of Pavan: The Earle of Salisbury in Sibelius Scorch, PDF, MIDI, and MP3 formats.
- William Byrd - http://www.goldbergweb.com/en/magazine/composers/2001/03/287.php
Biographical essay noting his relatively large output in Latin from the Goldberg Early Music Portal with discography, links to articles, and discography.
- William Byrd - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Byrd
Wikipedia article paying special attention to the religious millieu in which he lived and worked with internal references to related people, places, and topics.
- William Byrd - http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/b/byrd.html
Entry at the Lied and Art Songs Text Page with list of vocal works linked to English and Latin lyrics.
- William Byrd - http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/default.asp?pn=Composers&char=B&ComposerID=161
Brief biographical sketch, caricature, summaries of church, vocal, consort, and keyboard works, and Naxos discography.
- William Byrd - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9927927&pt=William%20Byrd
Find A Grave entry with birth and death dates, musical biography, portrait, note on missing grave site with pictures of commemorative plaque and church, and interactive memorial.
- William Byrd - http://www.karadar.it/Dictionary/byrd.html
Musica Classica Classical Music Dictionary entry with life, portrait, works with MIDI audio samples, and links.
- Virtual Byrd Choir - http://a-babe.plala.jp/~wilbye/vbc.html
Audio files of Byrd's choral works performed by a Tokyo-based solo ensemble. Streaming Real Audio RAM and Window's Media WMA formats. Links to Virtual Wilbye Consort sites.
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