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Here’s a list of Robert Parson’s compositions, taken from the R.P Project Website:

• The English Works:
  • The First "Great" Service (a 8)
  • Venite, Te Deum, Benedictus
  • Decalogue Responses, Credo
  • Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis
  • The Second "Excellent" Service for Means
    • Te Deum
  • Two Anthems
    • Holy Lord God almighty
    • Deliver me from mine enemies
• The Latin Works:
  • Ave Maria
  • Credo quod redemptor
  • Domine quis habitabit
  • Libera me Domine
  • Magnificat
  • O Bone Jesu
  • Pecantem me quotidie
  • Retribue servo tuo
  • Iam Christus astra
• Consort Music:
  • In Nomines for 4, 5, and 7 viols
  • The Song Called Trumpets
  • Ut re mi fa sol
  • De la Court
  • A Song
• Songs:
  • In Youthly Years
  • Pandolpho
  • Enforc’d by love and fear
  • Alas you salt sea gods

Nothing is known of Parsons before he joined the Chapel Royal in 1563. He wrote music for the English rite and in Latin. As a member of the Chapel Royal, he would have known Thomas Tallis, and probably also William Byrd, who suceeded him as a member. He died by drowning in the River Trent at Newark (England).

• Robert Parsons Project