• Date: ca. 1580
• Main Performer: William Byrd
• Genre: Choral
• Period: Renaissance (1450-1599)

Review

Laudibus in sanctis is a five-part Latin motet by the renaissance English composer William Byrd (1543-1623). The text for this motet is a paraphrase, in Latin elegiac verse, of Psalm 150, the musical Psalm that exhorts praise of God in all manner of instruments. Perhaps this is the reason that Byrd chose this psalm. Byrd illustrates this catalogue of instruments by writing quavers under words such as 'cantate' and 'laeta chorea'.

This work often utilizes a homophonic texture rather than a polyphonic one. While Byrd had problems in previous homophonic writing (such as in Siderum Rector), by the time he wrote this work, he is confident in his approach and the motet correspondingly works very well. While not containing the breadth of Haec dicit Dominus, this is a most admirable composition and is consequently well-known.

~ All Music Guide

Albums with Complete Performances of the Work

Title	Date
Renaissance Masterpieces: Ockeghem; Josquin; Morales	1994
Ave Verum Corpus: Motets and Anthems of William Byrd	1989
William Byrd: Ave Verum Corpus; Motets and Anthems	2002
William Byrd: Laudibus in sanctis
Byrd: The Caged Bird	1997
Renaissance Masterpieces: Tallis, Gibbons, Taverner, Byrd
The Early Music Collection (Box Set)	1996
William Byrd: Anthems, Motets & Services	2005
English Renaissance	1995
Allegri: Miserere and other Choral Favourites	1996
Renaissance Masterpieces (Box Set)
Great Tudor Anthems	2006
Inspired: The Breath of God (A Musical Companion to the Book)	1998
The Golden Age of English Cathedral Music	1983
Masters of English Church Music: Byrd, Stanford, Howells	1995
O God, Thou Art My God
Miserere: A Collection of Choral Classics	2004
Byrd: Mass for Five Voices with the Propers for All Saints Day	1990
English Choral Music, 1514-1682	1998
Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae	2007
The Saint Thomas Tradition
Motets of William Byrd
Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae	1994