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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 .
Thomas Tallis, 18th-century engraving; a posthumous, invented portrait [1] by Gerard Vandergucht This is a list of compositions by the English composer Thomas Tallis (c. 1505–1585). Masses
Like several of Vaughan Williams's other works, the Fantasia draws on the music of the English Renaissance. [9] Tallis's tune is in the Phrygian mode, characterised by intervals of a flat second, third, sixth and seventh; [4] the pattern is reproduced by playing the white notes of the piano starting on E. [10]
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]
Compositions by English Renaissance composer Thomas Tallis. Pages in category "Compositions by Thomas Tallis" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
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 imitation.
A Directory of Composers for Organ by Dr. John Henderson, Hon. Librarian to the Royal School of Church Music, 2005, 3rd edition. ISBN 0-9528050-2-2; Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Venetian Instrumental Music, from Gabrieli to Vivaldi. New York, Dover Publications, 1994. ISBN 0-486-28151-5; Christopher S. Anderson (Ed.), Twentieth-Century Organ Music.
In 1567 English composer Thomas Tallis contributed nine tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter, a collection of vernacular psalm settings intended for publication in a metrical psalter then being compiled for the Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker. They are: Man blest no doubt ; Let God arise in majesty