Thomas Tallis
Thomas Tallis was born on January 30, 1505, in Kent,
England.
Much of Tallis' work possesses a moody, reflective quality (for
example, “Lamentations of Jeremiah”,“Suscipe quaeso”, and “Miserere”), but
occasionally he could demonstrate supreme technical skill. The best, and most well-known, example may be the 40-part Spem in
alium, with its amazing tapestry of voices, but one can also point to pieces
such as the giant six-voice antiphon (A short sentence sung or recited before or
after a psalm or canticle) “Gaude gloriosa” (probably written to honor Queen
Mary Tudor) and some of Tallis' intricate keyboard pieces, most notably the two
Felix namque settings.
England.
Much of Tallis' work possesses a moody, reflective quality (for
example, “Lamentations of Jeremiah”,“Suscipe quaeso”, and “Miserere”), but
occasionally he could demonstrate supreme technical skill. The best, and most well-known, example may be the 40-part Spem in
alium, with its amazing tapestry of voices, but one can also point to pieces
such as the giant six-voice antiphon (A short sentence sung or recited before or
after a psalm or canticle) “Gaude gloriosa” (probably written to honor Queen
Mary Tudor) and some of Tallis' intricate keyboard pieces, most notably the two
Felix namque settings.