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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 .
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.
In 2012 E. L. James published her best-selling novel Fifty Shades of Grey which referenced Thomas Tallis's 40-part motet Spem in alium. [22] As a direct result, sales of Gimell's 1985 album Spem in Alium "outsold even the tenor Luciano Pavarotti", putting it at number one in the British UK Classical Charts. [23]
I looked at the reference for the quote from Davies, but it appears that he is referring to a CD, rather than Tallis's Spem in alium. The quote should either be removed, or an unambiguous reference should be added into the article. Toccata quarta 13:39, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
inter spem et metum: between hope and fear: inter faeces et urinam nascimur: we are born between feces and urine: Attributed to Saint Augustine. inter vivos: between the living: Describes property transfers between living persons, as opposed to a testamentary transfer upon death such as an inheritance; often relevant to tax laws. intra muros ...
vita summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam: the shortness of life prevents us from entertaining far-off hopes: This is a wistful refrain that is sometimes used ironically. It is derived from the first line of Horace's Ode 1. It was later used as the title of a short poem of Ernest Dowson. vitae corona fides: faith is the crown of life
The distinction between the two substantially affects the meaning of this phrase. "ALIUM" translates to "garlic" in English; whereas "ALIUS" means "another." Although the phrase at the title of this entry is quoted and requoted all over the internet using alium, this appears to be wrong, unless there is a Latin idiom where these two words can ...
The lyrics are in classical Urdu, written by the Pakistani Urdu-language poet Hafeez Jalandhari in 1952. No verse in the three stanzas is repeated. [ 2 ] The lyrics have heavy Persian poetic vocabulary, [ 17 ] and the only words derived from Sanskrit are "ka" ( کا [kaˑ] 'of'), and "tu" ( تو [tuˑ] 'thou').