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Thomas Tallis (/ ˈ t æ l ɪ s /; [2] also Tallys or Talles; c. 1505 – 23 November 1585 [n 1]) was an English composer of High Renaissance music. His compositions are primarily vocal, and he occupies a primary place in anthologies of English choral music .
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 ]
Thomas Tallis, a prominent musician of the Chapel Royal at the time, was among the first to write sacred music in English. [ 7 ] "If Ye Love Me" is a setting for an a cappella choir of four voice parts, and it is a noted example of this Reformation compositional style, essentially homophonic [ citation needed ] but with some elaboration and ...
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. H. B. Collins described it in 1929 as Tallis's "crowning achievement", along with his Lamentations. [1]
It is based on a tune by the 16th-century English composer Thomas Tallis, which Vaughan Williams had come across while editing the English Hymnal, published in 1906. [4] Vaughan Williams conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in the first performance of the Fantasia, as the first part of a concert in Gloucester Cathedral on 6 September 1910 ...
Ye Sacred Muses is William Byrd's Musical elegy on the death of his colleague and mentor, Thomas Tallis, in the form of a secular madrigal. It is scored for 5 voices (usually four viols and countertenor), though the vocal part is scored for treble voice, or a cappella SATTB choir. The words are:- Ye sacred Muses, race of Jove,
The Clerks of Christ Church have now signed exclusively for SOMM Records. A Garland of the Elizabethan is their first disc since signing, and will be followed by a disc celebrating the quincentenary of Thomas Tallis' birth, the music being Tallis' contribution to the 1575 publication Cantiones Sacrae.
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