Tallis, Thomas
Period: Renaissance
Born: c. 1505
Died: Saturday, November 23, 1585 in Greenwich, England
Nation of Origin: United Kingdom
Major Works:
Masses and other sacred choral works
Lamentations (from the verses of the prophet Jeremiah)
Harmonic settings of the plainsong responses of the Anglican church.
A 40-voice motet! Spem in alium
Other Information:
Tallis was probably the organist at Waltham Abbey, in the vicinity of London. He worked in the Chapel Royal for both King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth. He worked with William Byrd, another important figure in Anglican church music.
General Bibliography:
Reese, Gustave, Music in the Renaissance, W.W. Norton & Company; November 1959, ISBN: 0393095304
Sachs, Curt, The Rise of Music in the Ancient World , W. W. Norton & Company, 1943, ASIN: 0393097188
Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group, December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257
Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc., January 2004, ISBN: 0195170679
Rutherford-Johnson, Tim, Kennedy, Michael, and Kennedy, Joyce The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press, 6th Edition, 2012, ISBN: 0199578109
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