Thomas Tallis
Life
Born: c.1505
Died: 23 November 1585
Biography
The entry in Cathedral Music, Volume 1 (William Boyce) reads:
Thomas Tallis was Organist of the Royal Chapels to King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth. He was esteem'd a most excellent Composer of Church Music, at least equal to any Contemporary, either of his own Country or of Foreign Nations; and was the first who compos'd the Musical Part of our Divine Service in the English Language. He, in conjunction with William Bird, a Musician of great Eminence, who had been his Scholar, obtain'd of Queen Elizabeth, in the Year of our Lord 1575, Letters Patent, by which they claim'd the exclusive Right of printing all Ruled Paper, as well as of all Music Books, for the Term of 21 Years. He died November 23d, 1585, and was buried at Greenwich in Kent.
On his Grave-Stone is the following Inscription:
- Enterred here doth ly a worthy wyght, / Who for long Tyme in musick bore the bell:
- His name to shew, was Thomas Tallis hyght, / In honest vertuous Lyff he dyd excell.
- He ser'd long Tyme in Chappel with grete Prayse, / Fower Sovereygnes Reygnes (a thing not often seen)
- I mean King Henry & Prynce Edward's dayes, / Queen Mary, & Elizabeth our Quene.
- He maryd was, though children had he none, / and lyv'd in Love full thre and thirty yeres
- With loyal spouse, whose name yclyipt was Jone, / Who here entomb'd, his Company now bears.
- As he did lyve, so also did he dy, / In mild & quyet sort (O! happy man)
- To God ful oft for mercy did he cry, / Wherefore he lyves, let Death do what he can.
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List of choral works
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List of choral works
Sacred music in Latin
Sacred music in English
- All people that on earth do dwell (anon. 17th c. elaboration of "Out from the Deep")
- Benedictus for equal voices (Thomas Tallis)
- Benedictus in D minor (Thomas Tallis)
- Blessed are those that be undefiled (Thomas Tallis)
- Blessed be thy name (Thomas Tallis)
- Christ rising again (Thomas Tallis)
- Come Holy Ghost, eternal God (Thomas Tallis)
- Communion service in D minor (Thomas Tallis)
- Discomfit them, O Lord (Thomas Tallis)
- Expend, O Lord (Thomas Tallis)
- Glory to thee, my God, this night (Thomas Tallis)
- God grant with grace (Thomas Tallis)
- The God of love my Shepherd is (Thomas Tallis)
- Hear the voice and prayer (Thomas Tallis)
- I call and cry to thee, O Lord (Thomas Tallis)
- If ye love me (Thomas Tallis)
- Let God arise (Thomas Tallis)
- Magnificat (fauxbourdon) (Thomas Tallis)
- Man blest no doubt (Thomas Tallis)
- A new commandment (Thomas Tallis)
- O come in one (Thomas Tallis)
- O Holy Spirit, Lord of grace (Thomas Tallis)
- O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit (Thomas Tallis)
- O Lord, in thee is all my trust (Thomas Tallis)
- Out from the deep (Thomas Tallis)
- Out of the deep (Thomas Tallis)
- Praise the Lord O ye Gentils all (Thomas Tallis)
- Preces and Responses (Thomas Tallis)
- Psalm Tunes in Archbishop Parker's Psalter (1567?) (Thomas Tallis)
- Purge me, O Lord, from all my sin (Thomas Tallis)
- Remember not, O Lord God (Thomas Tallis)
- Short (Dorian) Service (Thomas Tallis)
- Single chant in F major (Thomas Tallis)
- Te Deum in D minor (Thomas Tallis)
- The heavenly Child in stature grows (Thomas Tallis)
- This is my commandment (Thomas Tallis)
- Venite (Thomas Tallis)
- Verily, verily I say unto you (Thomas Tallis)
- When Jesus went into Simon the Pharisee's house (Thomas Tallis)
- When like the hunted hind (Thomas Tallis)
- Why brag in malice high (Thomas Tallis)
- Why fumeth in sight (Thomas Tallis)
- Wipe away my sins (Thomas Tallis)
- With all our hearts (Thomas Tallis)
Anglican chants
Contrafacta in English
Pre-1650 English texts (not necessarily translations) set to the music of the Latin motets.
Contrafacta in Latin
- Blessed be thy name
- The God of love my Shepherd is
- I call and cry to thee, O Lord
- O salutaris hostia (contrafactum of O nata lux)
- Out of the deep
- Spem in alium
- When Jesus went into Simon the Pharisee's house
- Wipe away my sins
- With all our hearts
Secular songs in English
Choral works not indexed on CPDL
- Ave Dei patris filia
- Magnificat
- Missa Puer natus est nobis
- Procul recedant somnia - see Te lucis ante terminum
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Publications
- Cantiones, quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur (1575), jointly with William Byrd
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