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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 .
Why Fum'th In Sight (Psalm 2, tune known as the third mode melody, see also Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis) O Come In One To Praise The Lord ; E'en Like The Hunted Hind ; Expend, O Lord, My Plaint ; Why Brag'st In Malice High ; God Grant With Grace (Psalm 67, tune known as Tallis' Canon) Ordinal (Veni Creator)
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God grant with grace (Psalm 67, tune known as Tallis' Canon) Come Holy Ghost, eternal God (Veni Creator, tune known as Tallis' Ordinal) The eight psalm tunes as printed in Parker's Psalter included symbols showing how they could be applied throughout the book. [1]
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]
"If ye love me" is a four-part motet or anthem by the English composer Thomas Tallis, a setting of a passage from the Gospel of John. First published in 1565 during the reign of Elizabeth I, it is an example of Tudor music and is part of the repertoire of Anglican church music. An early English-language motet, it is frequently performed today ...
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]
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)".