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Thomas Tallis
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Short Name: Thomas Tallis
Full Name: Tallis, Thomas, ca. 1505-1585
Birth Year: 1505
Death Year: 1585

Thomas Tallis (b. Leicestershire [?], England, c. 1505; d. Greenwich, Kent, England 1585) was one of the few Tudor musicians who served during the reigns of Henry VIII: Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth I and managed to remain in the good favor of both Catholic and Protestant monarchs. He was court organist and composer from 1543 until his death, composing music for Roman Catholic masses and Anglican liturgies (depending on the monarch). With William Byrd, Tallis also enjoyed a long-term monopoly on music printing. Prior to his court connections Tallis had served at Waltham Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral. He composed mostly church music, including Latin motets, English anthems, settings of the liturgy, magnificats, and two sets of lamentations. His most extensive contrapuntal work was the choral composition, "Spem in alium," a work in forty parts for eight five-voice choirs. He also provided nine modal psalm tunes for Matthew Parker's Psalter (c. 1561).

Bert Polman


Tunes by Thomas Tallis (37)AsInstancessort descendingIncipit
[Chant] (171223)Tallis (Composer)117122 32171
[Chant] (Tallis 34322)T. Tallis (Composer)234322 31171
[Glory be to the Father, and to the Son] (Tallis)T. Tallis (Composer)255555 55555 55555
[Why standest thou so far off O Lord] (Tallis)Thomas Tallis (Composer)234322 32117 1
[THE TEN COMMANDMENTS] TALLIST. Tallis (Composer)2
[Enter thy courts, thou Word of Life]Thos. Tallis (Composer)251231 42321 71512
[Chant] (Tallis 55555)T. Tallis (Composer)255555 665
THE FIRST TUNEThomas Tallis (Composer)213321 54524 56657
[Glory be to Thee, O Lord] (Tallis 44444)Thomas Tallis (c. 1510-1585) (Composer)244444 43
TALYSThomas Tallis (ca. 1505-1585) (Composer)2
[All-seeing Lord, whose power unknown]Thos. Tallis (Composer)211111 22332 11711
[If ye love me, keep my commandments] (Tallis)Thomas Tallis (Composer)211233 21433 33543
[O God, open my lips]Thomas Tallis (Composer)235566 53565 35655
[When Jesus to our rescue drew]T. Tallis (Composer)213211 17132 11713
TALLIS CHANTTallis (Composer)355555 53656 71675
[The Lord be with you] (Tallis)Thomas Tallis (Composer)335555
[Lord, have mercy upon us] (Tallis 33333)Thomas Tallis (Composer)333333 23332 44325
[Lord, have mercy upon us] (Tallis 55536)T. Tallis (Composer)455536 65655 53665
[Lord, have mercy upon us] (Tallis 12216)Thomas Tallis (Composer)412216 71
BENSON (Tallis)Thomas Tallis, d. 1585 (Composer)411216 71334 32221
[Chant] (Tallis 51177)T. Tallis (Composer)451177 71111 76666
THE FIFTH TUNEThomas Tallis (Composer)413455 64543 23134
SEVENTH MODE MELODYThomas Tallis (Composer)515234 55655 45152
[Glory be to Thee, O Lord] (Tallis 555565)Thomas Tallis, d. 1585 (Composer)555556 5
[Twofold Amen] (Tallis)Thomas Tallis, c. 1505-1585 (Composer)532412 167
[Glory be to Thee, O Lord] (Tallis 11111)T. Tallis, c. 1505-85 (Composer)611111 17
VENI CREATOR (Tallis)Thomas Tallis (Composer)611715 54556 71117
SECOND MODE MELODYThomas Tallis, 1515-1585 (Composer)766716 77656 77662
[Thanks be to thee, O Lord] (Tallis)Thomas Tallis (Composer)857655
TALLIS'S HYMNT. Tallis (Composer)911111 23431 44332
[Glory be to Thee, O Lord] (Tallis 5555665)Thomas Tallis, d. 1585 (Composer)955556 65
[Chant] (Tallis 11566)Thomas Tallis (Composer)911566 71171
FIRST MODE MELODYThomas Tallis (Composer)1711171 32222 5545
THIRD MODE MELODYThomas Tallis (Composer)4613333 44555 55655
[Our Father who art in heaven] (Tallis 33233)Tallis (Arranger)6333233 21223
TALLIS' ORDINALThomas Tallis (Composer)21213455 66551 76651
TALLIS' CANONThomas Tallis (Composer)44451111 22343 14433
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