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Tallis's pupil William Byrd. Tallis was an eminent figure in Elizabeth's household chapel, but as he aged he became gradually less prominent. [20] In 1575, Elizabeth granted Tallis and Byrd a 21-year monopoly for polyphonic music [22] and a patent to print and publish "set songe or songes in parts", one of the first arrangements of its kind in ...
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.
Tallis", [10] and a reference in the Cantiones sacrae, published by Byrd and Thomas Tallis in 1575, tends to confirm that Byrd was a pupil of Tallis in the Chapel Royal. [11] If he was—and conclusive evidence has not emerged to verify it [ 12 ] —it seems likely that once Byrd's voice broke, the boy stayed on at the Chapel Royal as Tallis's ...
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 set the first lesson, and second lesson, of Tenebrae on Maundy Thursday between 1560, and 1569: "when the practice of making musical settings of the Holy Week readings from the Book of Jeremiah enjoyed a brief and distinguished flowering in England (the practice had developed on the continent during the early 15th century)".
January 22 – Thomas Tallis and William Byrd are granted a 25-year monopoly for printing and selling part-music and manuscript paper by Queen Elizabeth I of England. The first performance of a mixed consort takes place in the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England. [citation needed] First appearance of the dulcian in Nuremberg. [citation needed]
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.
Queen Elizabeth re-established the Church of England and introduced measures of Catholic tolerance. The most famous composers for the Anglican Church during Queen Elizabeth's reign were Thomas Tallis and his student William Byrd. Both composers were Catholics and produced vocal works in both Latin and English.