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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 ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 – 23 November 1585; [n 1] also Tallys or Talles) 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.
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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]
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There is some evidence that he may have had the music for either this piece or his 40/60 voice mass, Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno, with him on his diplomatic visit to London in 1567, since Thomas Tallis seems to have been inspired and challenged by it, and shortly afterwards wrote his own 40-voice tour-de-force Spem in alium, commissioned ...