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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 .
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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
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.
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]
The Tallis Scholars sing Palestrina: 2-disc reissue Tallis The Tallis Scholars sing Thomas Tallis: 2-disc reissue 2005 Allegri Miserere: 25th Anniversary Edition of the 1980 release John Browne: Music from the Eton Choirbook: Gramophone Early Music Award, 2005 Palestrina Tallis Scholars sing Palestrina: 2-disc reissue Victoria/ D. Lobo/ Cardoso ...
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]
He compared it favorably to the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and said that it may have influenced the design of the opening movement of the composer's Sixth Symphony. [ 10 ] In his overview of Vaughan Williams' music, the music critic Michael Kennedy called the Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus a "labour of love" that "[mused] upon ...