O That Most Rare Breast (Byrd, William)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	2
Composition Year	1586 or later
Genre Categories	Songs; For voice, unspecified instruments; Scores featuring the voice; [5 more...]Scores with open instrumentation; For voices with solo instruments; For 5 voices; For unaccompanied voices; English language

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Editor	Allen Garvin
Publisher. Info.	Dallas: Hawthorne Early Music, 2013.
Copyright	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 [tag/del/mrg]
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Work Title	O That Most Rare Breast
Alternative. Title
Composer	Byrd, William
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.	IWB 99
Key	G minor
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	2
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1586 or later
First Publication.	1588 in Psalmes, Sonets and Songs
Librettist	Possibly Sir Edward Dyer
Language	English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Renaissance
Piece Style	Renaissance
Instrumentation	voice, consort instruments (or 5 voices)

The text is a funeral poem honoring the death of Sir Philip Sidney. It was the final piece (all 5 parts texted) in Byrd's 1588 Psalmes, Sonets and Songs.
According to Grove Music, this was "known in earlier consort song version".