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Thomas Tallis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thomas Tallis died peacefully in his house in Greenwich in November 1585, and was buried in the chancel of the parish of St Alfege's Church. One of the nine tunes inspired the composition of Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1910. Tallis was content to draw his texts from the liturgy and write for the worship services in the Chapel Royal. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Tallis   (725 words)

Thomas Tallis Tallis died November 23, 1585, and was buried in the parish church at Greenwich, where a quaint rhymed epitaph, preserved by Strype, and reprinted by Burney and Hawkins, recorded the fact that he served in the chapel royal during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I. Not long after his dismissal from Waltham, Tallis was appointed a gentleman of the chapel royal; and from that point forward he labored so zealously for the advancement of his art that the English school owes more to him than to any other composer of the 16th century. Of this profound learning Tallis possessed an inexhaustible store; and it enabled him to raise the English school to a height which it had never previously attained, and which it continued to maintain until the death of its last representative, Orlando Gibbons, in 1625. www.nndb.com /people/357/000093078   (650 words)

Thomas Tallis The relationship of master and pupil was close and affectionate; Tallis became godfather of Byrd's son, Thomas. Tallis had now risen as high in his profession as it was possible to rise, and it is no surprise that he remained a member of the Chapel Royal for the rest of his life, rising in seniority until he became its acknowledged doyen. Tallis may well have served as organist of the chapel throughout his membership of it, although he was not given this title until the 1570s. www.hoasm.org /IVM/Tallis.html   (2458 words)

Thomas Tallis Tallis' Canon was composed by Thomas Tallis as one of nine tunes and several anthems for Archbishop Matthew Parker's The Whole Psalter translated into English Metre, which contayneth an hundred and fifty Psalmes. Tallis then was employed as organist and composer at the Chapel Royal, over the course of four monarchs, until his death. Tallis was described in his epitaph as humble and unassuming and one who avoided religious conflict. www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com /Hymns_and_Carols/Biographies/thomas_tallis.htm   (457 words)

tallis_t.htm Tallis was one of the first com­pos­ers of Anglican sa­cred mu­sic to write in Eng­lish. Tallis has been called Eng­land& leading com­po­ser of sa­cred mu­sic in the Tu­dor era. www.cyberhymnal.org /bio/t/a/tallis_t.htm   (104 words)

Thomas Tallis Like Byrd he was an avowed Catholic, and even Elizabeth herself connived at the retention of Tallis in his court appointments. Unfortunately, he has been too frequently judged by his English services, but these were merely written ex officio and do not reveal the genuine Tallis, whose best contrapuntal work may be placed almost on a par with that of Palestrina. In conjunction with Byrd he obtained the valuable monopoly of printing music and ruled music paper from 1575 till his death, and he was also given lands valued at 30 pounds sterling per year by Elizabeth, as well as various tithes. www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/t/tallis,thomas.html   (408 words)

Thomas Tallis - an overview of the classical composer Tallis' Third Mode Melody in particular is well known by virtue of its use by Ralph Vaughan-Williams in his "Variations on a theme by Thomas Tallis". Tallis' earlier life is not well documented, though it is known he was employed as an organist at an Abbey at the time of the dissolution of the Monasteries in England. Among the works produced by Tallis there are a number of hymns which can still be found in hymn books today, including his canon universally known as Tallis' Canon, and the imaginatively named "First Mode Melody", "Third Mode Melody" and "Fifth Mode Melody". www.mfiles.co.uk /composers/Thomas-Tallis.htm   (180 words)

ST ALFEGE Thomas Tallis & English church music Thomas Tallis' compositional and spiritual career occupied roughly half the central 50 years of the 16th century, spanning all the religious upheavals of the period and coinciding with rapid and fundamental changes in the style and status of English church music. Tallis' compositional style was as various as the times in which he lived and reflected with astonishing clarity the changes of language and liturgy, the cross-currents of musical style and technique. By the 1560s, Tallis was the doyen among musicians and held a position of the greatest eminence in the country; a position which later would have been called Master of the King's/ Queen's Music. www.st-alfege.org /t-tallis.htm   (328 words)

BBC - h2g2 - Thomas Tallis Thomas Tallis was fortunate in that he was in Queen Elizabeth's favour because he was a Catholic - like William Byrd, his pupil - during a period of religious unrest in English history, resulting in the state religion of England switching from Catholic to Protestant. Thomas Tallis (1505- 1585) was an English composer during the Renaissance Period in music (1400 - 1600). Tallis lived at the time when printed music was just becoming possible, and as a result a very substantial body of work survives, notably many anthems for liturgical use (he was a pioneer of the anthem in England) but also separate works such as his Lamentations of Jeremiah. www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A375464   (518 words)

Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Tallis Tallis presided over the most dynamic period in English musical history, during which the continental style of structural imitation was largely adopted by English composers in the wake of the reformation and supression of the monasteries. Tallis was the most influential English composer of his generation, as well as one of the most popular renaissance composers of today. Though Tallis' music includes a wide range of styles and objectives, the bulk of his output is choral music, both in the older Latin motet style and the newer English anthem style. www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/tallis.html   (536 words)

Thomas Tallis - The Complete Works The first disc in the series consists of music from the 1530s, written by the young Thomas Tallis when he was still in his early posts at Dover Priory and St Mary at Hill in London. Tallis was undoubtedly the greatest of the 16th century composers; in craftsmanship, versatility and intensity of expression, the sheer uncluttered beauty and drama of his music reach out and speak directly to the listener. Tallis' examples of the mass ordinary and votive antiphon are found on volumes one and three in this series. www.signumrecords.com /catalogue/tallis   (1581 words)

Thomas Tallis - Classical Composers Database Thomas Tallis was an English organist and composer whose career spanned the reigns of four monarchs and a long period of religious change. Tallis and Byrd were acting as joing organists of the Chapel Royal at this time, and were so described on the title-page of the set of their motlets which they published in 1575. Tallis died at Greenwich on 23 Nov. 1585 and was buried in the parish church of St. Alphege, just inside the chancel rails and near the grave of his colleague Richard Bowyer. www.classical-composers.org /cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=tallis   (3975 words)

About the Tallis Theme To find out more about the works of Thomas Tallis and what recordings are available, click here to visit the Gimmell Records / Tallis Scholars web site. Tallis remained a Catholic at time of considerable religious upheaval in the British Isles, and the fact that he was able to continue to write for both the Catholic and Anglican churches illustrates the esteem in which he was held. The theme that Vaughan Williams used to such great effect was the third of nine tunes Tallis composed in 1567 as part of a psalter for the first Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker. www.agentsmith.com /rvw/guides/tallis.html   (345 words)

Thomas Tallis Biography / Biography of Thomas Tallis Biography thomas · service · extant · anthem · compositions · organist · english composer · conveniently · musical establishment · sacred works · thomas tallis · latin motets · anglican rite · billingsgate Tallis composed mainly sacred works, and his oeuvre may most conveniently be divided into two kinds: those with Latin texts and those with English texts. Tallis died in Greenwich on Nov. 23, 1585, survived by his widow, Joan. www.bookrags.com /biography-thomas-tallis   (589 words)

Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585) - A short biography & discography Despite his stature as one of the great composers of English sacred music, little is known about the personality of English composer Thomas Tallis (ca. Tallis remained with the Chapel Royal until his death in 1585, while finding time to marry his wife Joan and taking on the young Byrd as a pupil (both probably around the same time, in 1552). It was ostensibly the result of a challenge by one of the composer's supporters, the Catholic Thomas Howard, fourth Duke of Norfolk (executed not long after as the result of trumped-up charges accusing Norfolk of colluding with Mary Queen of Scots). www.medieval.org /emfaq/composers/tallis.html   (1133 words)

Thomas Tallis Society - Philip Simms He was promptly asked to become organist and choirmaster at the Hawksmoor parish church of St Alfege, where Thomas Tallis, the "Father of English church music" is buried. For years he performed many works by Britten - including Noyes Fludde, produced by John Cox and involving many local schools and indeed most of musical and theatrical Greenwich - and he has made a point of commissioning new pieces by young composers for the Thomas Tallis Society. As sub-principal double-bass he travelled widely, working in Aldeburgh with the English Opera Group and Benjamin Britten, and playing with many celebrities running in parallel, and in 1965 began to give concerts in Greenwich with his newly-founded Thomas Tallis Society. www.thomas-tallis-society.org.uk /simms01.htm   (556 words)

Amazon.com: Thomas Tallis: Spem in alium: Music Thomas Tallis, born in 1505, was one of the outstanding liturgical composers of his day, being the acknowledged master of the composers of England from the time of Queen Mary's reign forward. Their recordings are of a consistent quality that deserve more than five stars; this particular disc of pieces by Thomas Tallis, the namesake of the group, deserves a place on the shelf of anyone who loves choral music, liturgical music or Gregorian chant, classical music generally, or religious music. The Tallis Scholars, a favourite group of mine since the first time I heard them decades ago, are a group dedicated to the performance and preservation of the best of this type of music. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001I4M?v=glance   (1399 words)

Tallis, Thomas (c. 1505 - 1585) The career of the English composer Thomas Tallis spans the troubled period of the reign of Henry VIII, with the sequestration of monastic property, the Protestant régime of his successor, the re-establishment of Catholicism under Queen Mary and the subsequent changes under Queen Elizabeth. Tallis began his career as organist at the Benedictine Priory at Dover, followed by similar service at Waltham Abbey until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1540. Tallis wrote a quantity of Latin church music and contributed also to the reformed English liturgy, in some cases adapting earlier Latin compositions. www.naxos.com /composer/tallis.htm   (201 words)

HyperMusic -- History of Classical Music: Tallis Thomas Tallis was a Catholic composer for four English monarchs. Spem in Alium, Tallis Fantasia, The Lamentations of Jeremiah, Tallis was a royal composer under Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary Tudor, and Elizabeth I. He worked in England. www.hypermusic.ca /comp/tallis.html   (127 words)

BBC - Music / Profiles - Thomas Tallis Tallis composed predominantly for the church, producing music of great technical mastery and restraint for both Protestant and Catholic monarchs, including such flashes of brilliance as the magnificent Spem in Alium. Tallis was active as a composer and organist throughout at least five decades and under four successive monarchs Tallis is often referred to as the "father of English church music" www.bbc.co.uk /music/profiles/tallis.shtml   (358 words)

Thomas Tallis Spem in Alium - Programme Notes Writing for 40 independent voices, Thomas Tallis created a noble and monumental edifice which in the course of its 69 longs makes creative and imaginative use of the extensive musical palette. Spem in alium is surely not just the greatest of all Thomas Tallis’ musical achievements, but one of the great musical compositions of all time. Tallis groups his singers into eight choirs of five voices (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone and bass) and it seems most likely that he intended them to stand in a horseshoe shape. www.signumrecords.com /catalogue/sigcd047/programme.htm   (650 words)

HOASM: Thomas Weelkes Thomas Weelkes, whose professional career spanned one of the most fertile periods in England's musical history, is without doubt one of her finest composers. As a madrigalist, Thomas Weelkes owed a great debt to Thomas Morley, who had done more than anyone to establish the Italian form on English soil. Noel, adieu (1600) is dedicated to Sir Henry Noel, Elizabethan courtier and musical amateur, in whose memory Thomas Morley had earlier (in 1597) composed an elegy. home.sprintmail.com /~cwhent/Weelkes.html   (1565 words)

HOASM: Thomas Morley Thomas East, first as assigne of Byrd, then of Morley, was the man who changed the face of music-printing, partly by his adoption of Italian standards, his introduction of Italian compositions, and by more prolific publishing. Thomas Morley was as skilled an entrepreneur and businessman as he was a composer. Tallis and Byrd had not made their monopoly very profitable, probably because they were not business men--their minds were elsewhere. home.sprintmail.com /~cwhent/Morley.html   (1360 words)

Thomas Tallis (1505-1585) : Library of Congress Citations Heading: Tallis, Thomas, 1505 (ca.)-1585 References: Tallys, Thomas, 1505 (ca.)-1585 Talys, Thomas, 1505 (ca.)-1585 Talles, Thomas, 1505 (ca.)-1585 Notes: His The order of the daily service of the United church... Mass Salve intemerata virgo Tallis, Thomas, 1505 (ca.)-1585. Mass for four voices / Thomas Tallis (27:36) -- Missa Tota pulchra es / Claudin de Sermisy (26:46). www.mala.bc.ca /~Mcneil/cit/citlctallis.htm   (5507 words)

Thomas Tallis Society One of the country's finest choral societies, the Thomas Tallis Society - now celebrating its 40th year - takes its name from the 16th century composer who worked at the Greenwich Royal Court and is buried in the Parish Church of St Alfege. The Thomas Tallis Society continues to give five to six concerts a year in St Alfege or the Royal Naval College Chapel, and to take part in local Festivals. Although many Thomas Tallis Society members live locally to Greenwich, the Society attracts musicians from all over London. www.thomas-tallis-society.org.uk   (240 words)

Thomas Tallis Thomas Tallis may have been the most important composers of his time. Tallis' talent wore of on his pupil William Byrd. Tallis them moved to Canterbury where he worked as a lay clerk. www.chatham-nj.org /coin/English9/Maurer/Tallis.html   (120 words)

Thomas Tallis--Biography It is apparent that Thomas Tallis’ flexibility and willingness to mutate and adapt his style, not to mention his musical genius, has secured him a place in Music History as an important contributor to English music. Thomas Tallis (1505-1585) was born in the English   Because the Christian church influenced musical style and trends so much during this time period, Thomas Tallis had to adapt his writing style many times throughout his life. www.ptloma.edu /music/MUH/composers/tallis/Tallis_Biography.htm   (322 words)

Spem in alium nunquam habui (Thomas Tallis) - ChoralWiki Spem in alium nunquam habui (Thomas Tallis) - ChoralWiki It seems very likely that Striggio performed the motet in London, and that he and Thomas Tallis met. Tallis also manages to combine the exchanges between choirs in four different antiphonal arrangements, by amalgamating the singers in four groups of two choirs (as hinted at above), so antiphony can pass back between both "north" and "south", but also between "east" and "west"), but also as two groups of four choirs (i.e. www.cpdl.org /wiki/index.php/Spem_in_alium_nunquam_habui_(tenor_parts)_(Thomas_Tallis)   (843 words)

Amazon.co.uk: Thomas Tallis: Spem in alium [SACD]: Music Amazon.co.uk: Thomas Tallis: Spem in alium [SACD]: Music Until now my preference for prformance of the Spem in alium work was by the Tallis Scholars.Magnificat however improves on this, both with the clarity of the singing, the near perfect acoustic and the sublime recording. As for the performances, that of the Spem In Alium is unmatched even by the Tallis Scholars and the Sixteen (and that's the case even though all three discs feature some singers in common). www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001LUFU8   (622 words)

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