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Spem in alium (Latin for "Hope in any other") is a 40-part Renaissance motet by Thomas Tallis, composed in c. 1570 for eight choirs of five voices each. It is considered by some critics to be the greatest piece of English early music .
Spem In Alium; Suscipe quaeso; Te Lucis Ante Terminum ; Te Lucis Ante Terminum ; Videte Miraculum (Responsory for Vespers) English service music. Preces (1st Set) ...
As no records about the birth, family or childhood of Thomas Tallis exist, almost nothing is known about his early life or origins. Historians have calculated that he was born in the early part of the 16th century, towards the end of the reign of Henry VII of England, and estimates for the year of his birth range from 1500 to 1520. [3]
The Tallis Festival was an annual music festival based on the work of the composer Thomas Tallis.It was hosted by Exmoor Singers of London from 1990 to 2017. [1] The festival usually included Thomas Tallis's Spem in alium for 40-part choir, but in addition commissioned new works by modern composers. [1]
Spem in alium; T. Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter This page was last edited on 26 March 2024, at 21:09 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
In 2003, the group signed with Signum Records, with whom they have now released eighteen recordings, including an experimental recording of Thomas Tallis' 40-part "Spem in Alium", using modern studio multi-tracking techniques to turn their six voices into 40, the results of which can be heard on a Signum CD and Iambic Productions DVD, which ...
The famous 40-voice motet Spem in alium, by English composer Thomas Tallis, is a setting of a text from the Book of Judith. The story also inspired oratorios by Antonio Vivaldi, W. A. Mozart and Hubert Parry, and an operetta by Jacob Pavlovitch Adler.
It was within one of these towers that the premiere of Thomas Tallis' masterwork, Spem in alium, was perhaps performed. The 1959 excavation of Nonsuch by Martin Biddle, aged 22, was a key event in the history of archaeology in the UK. It was one of the first post-medieval sites to be excavated, and attracted over 75,000 visitors during the work.