1505–85 English composer Athough undoubtedly a fine composer, Tallis is also worth mentioning for his amazing ability to sustain a successful career spanning the religious upheavals of the reigns of Henry VIII and his three children. Beginning as a good Catholic, he composed Latin Masses and motets. When change came, he changed too and turned out to be ...
Even then, the full picture can only be appreciated by taking into account music by the many recognized masters who do not feature here: among them Du Fay, Tallis, Byrd, Palestrina, Domenico Scarlatti, Gluck and a whole pantheon of Romantic and twentieth-century figures. Women are also absent from the story because, for reasons too ...
Beautiful Country of the East’) show that he was also quite comfortable in the less self-consciously highbrow language of the madrigal. Recommended Recording: Mass Praeter rerum serium, Motets, Tallis Scholars (dir) Peter Phillips (Gimell) Introduction | Renaissance | Classical Personalities | Ludwig Senfl | Renaissance | Classical ...
motets in the French style of Josquin. Recommended Recording: Les cris de Paris, Ensemble Clément Janequin (dir) Dominique Visse (Harmonia Mundi) Introduction | Renaissance | Classical Personalities | Thomas Tallis | Renaissance | Classical ...
century. In contrast, his Masses and motets have Latin texts and are densely polyphonic, with long, melismatic lines. Recommended Recording: Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis, Motets, Tallis Scholars (dir) Peter Phillips (Gimell) Introduction | Renaissance | Classical Personalities | William Cornysh | Renaissance | Classical ...
his father, he wrote many madrigals, motets and chansons. His son (also Alfonso, c. 1575–1628) and grandson, John (1626–82), completed the dynasty. Recommended Recording: Lamenta, Tallis Scholars (dir) Peter Phillips (Gimell) Introduction | Renaissance | Classical Personalities | Andrea Gabrieli | Renaissance | Classical ...
Senfl, it was finally published in 1550–55. The twentieth-century composer Anton Webern (1883–1945) received his doctorate for his study of Isaac. Recommended Recording: Missa de apostolis, Motets, Tallis Scholars (dir) Peter Phillips (Gimell) Introduction | Renaissance | Classical Personalities | Clément Janequin | Renaissance | Classical ...
He was most prolific in Mass composition and around 25 of these are extant; he later wrote in the parody Mass form and chansons. Recommended Recording: Missa Maria zart, Tallis Scholars (dir) Peter Phillips (Gimell) Introduction | Renaissance | Classical Personalities | Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina | Renaissance | Classical ...
style changes little between genres. This method of pervasive imitation influenced composers of the following generations and was central to the style of the most famous Renaissance composers, including Tallis, Byrd and Victoria. Recommended Recording: Motets, Chansons, Mass for Six Voices, Huelgas Ensemble (dir) Paul Van Nevel (Sony Classical) Introduction | Renaissance | Classical Personalities | ...
and major) and his work as editor of the English Hymnal confirmed this perception. The first masterpiece to be drawn from it is his Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (1910), in which rhapsodic pastoral and radiant mysticism can hardly be separated. This pastoral aspect has been ridiculed by some (one critic said that Vaughan Williams’s music reminded him of ...
Chapel Royal. During his first successful years in London he was associated with a number of powerful patrons, as well as with his teacher Tallis. In 1575 he and Tallis were granted a monopoly on music printing. The inaugural publication from the press, Byrd’s first book of cantiones sacrae (1589–91), was dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I. Soon after this ...
he also composed early examples of English-language secular song, such as the canon, ‘Ah Robyn, gentil Robyn’. Recommended Recording: Stabat Mater, Salve Regina, Magnificat, Tallis Scholars (dir) Peter Phillips (Gimell) Introduction | Renaissance | Classical Personalities | John Dowland | Renaissance | Classical ...
Belgium, Luxembourg, Lorraine and north-eastern France. Though other traditions continued to flourish – in particular the English school of the sixteenth century, whose greatest exponents were Thomas Tallis (1505–85) and William Byrd (1543–1623) – from the late-fifteenth century onwards, the music of Burgundian composers starts to dominate the general practice of this period. Throughout the sixteenth century ...
recreate the sort of sounds singers made. It is difficult to know how far modern vocal techniques can be applied to early music. Peter Phillips, the director of the Tallis Scholars, has observed that if we were to hear a choir from the fourteenth century, we might be horrified! In recent years, a number of groups ...
by the Bohemian Brethren in 1505, and the first collection of Lutheran hymns was published in 1524. Original English hymns first appeared in 1562. Composers such as Byrd and Tallis wrote harmonizations, probably intended for domestic use or choirs rather than for congregational singing. The Calvinists used psalm texts rather than composing new verses; the Calvinist Psalter of 1551 ...
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