Tallis

Tallis
Title Tallis PDF eBook
Author Kerry Robin McCarthy
Publisher
Pages 281
Release 2020
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0190635215

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Thomas Tallis spent more than fifty years composing music in the volatile world of Tudor England. Tallis is a clear, readable biography of a great Renaissance musician, which places the composer's music in its rich historical, cultural, and architectural context.

Thomas Tallis and His Music in Victorian England

Thomas Tallis and His Music in Victorian England
Title Thomas Tallis and His Music in Victorian England PDF eBook
Author Suzanne Cole
Publisher Boydell Press
Pages 242
Release 2008
Genre History
ISBN 9781843833802

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A survey of the huge importance of Thomas Tallis, the `Father of Church Music', on Victorian musical life. In Victorian England, Tallis was ever-present: in performances of his music, in accounts of his biography, and through his representation in physical monuments. Known in the nineteenth century as the 'Father of English Church Music', Tallis occupies a central position in the history of the music of the Anglican Church. This book examines in detail the reception of two works that lie at the stylistic extremes of his output: Spem in alium, revived in the 1830s, though generally not greatly admired, and the Responses, which were very popular. A close study of the performances, manuscripts and editions of these works casts light on the intersections between the antiquarian, liturgical and aesthetic goals of nineteenth-century editors and musicians. By tracing Tallis's reception in nineteenth-century England, the author charts the hold Tallis had on the Victorians and the ways in which Anglican - and English - identity was defined and challenged. Dr SUE COLE is a research associate at the Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne.

Elizabeth's Rival

Elizabeth's Rival
Title Elizabeth's Rival PDF eBook
Author Nicola Tallis
Publisher Michael O'Mara Books
Pages 361
Release 2017-11-02
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1782437517

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The first biography of Lettice Knollys, one of the most prominent women of the Elizabethan era, also examines the relationship between Elizabeth and Lettice's husband, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, within the context of his third marriage.

Thomas Tallis

Thomas Tallis
Title Thomas Tallis PDF eBook
Author John Harley
Publisher Routledge
Pages 296
Release 2016-02-24
Genre Music
ISBN 1317010361

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John Harley’s Thomas Tallis is the first full-length book to deal comprehensively with the composer’s life and works. Tallis entered the Chapel Royal in the middle of a long life, and remained there for over 40 years. During a colourful period of English history he famously served King Henry VIII and the three of Henry’s children who followed him to the throne. His importance for English music during the second half of the sixteenth century is equalled only by that of his pupil, colleague and friend William Byrd. In a series of chronological chapters, Harley describes Tallis’s career before and after he entered the Chapel. The fully considered biography is placed in the context of larger political and cultural changes of the period. Each monarch’s reign is treated with an examination of the ways in which Tallis met its particular musical needs. Consideration is given to all of Tallis’s surviving compositions, including those probably intended for patrons and amateurs beyond the court, and attention is paid to the context within which they were written. Tallis emerges as a composer whose music displays his special ability in setting words and creating ingenious musical patterns. A table places most of Tallis’s compositions in a broad chronological order.

Tallis and Byrd's Cantiones Sacrae (1575)

Tallis and Byrd's Cantiones Sacrae (1575)
Title Tallis and Byrd's Cantiones Sacrae (1575) PDF eBook
Author Jeremy L. Smith
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 285
Release 2023-04-18
Genre History
ISBN 1837650454

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What did Tallis and Byrd mean to convey by their use of the word "argument" in their title, Cantiones, quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur? Thomas Tallis's and William Byrd's Cantiones, quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur (songs, which by their argument are called sacred) of 1575 is one of the first sets of sacred music printed in England. It is widely recognized as a landmark achievement in English music history. Dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I to mark the seventeenth year of her reign, each composer contributed seventeen motets to the collection, which proved to be greatly influential among the era's composers. But what did Tallis and Byrd mean to convey by their use of the word "argument" in their title? The current view is that they treated their project as an opportunity to pull together a grand compendium of musical accomplishment that drew on the past, but looked to the future, and that the texts functioned as mere vehicles for musical display. In contrast, this book claims that these very texts were chosen by the composers to develop a theme, or argument, on the topic of sacred judgment. In offering a new interpretation of the song collection Smith employs a carefully constructed musical, literary, theological, and political argumentation. The book will encourage new ways of approaching and interpreting Tudor and Elizabethan sacred music.

Tudor Church Music: Thomas Tallis

Tudor Church Music: Thomas Tallis
Title Tudor Church Music: Thomas Tallis PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 374
Release 1928
Genre Church music
ISBN

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Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
Title Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis PDF eBook
Author Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher
Pages 34
Release 1921
Genre Orchestral music
ISBN

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