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标 题: Famous Composer:Thomas Tallis
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Sat Dec 20 04:51:53 1997), 转信
Thomas Tallis, b. c.1505, d. Nov. 23, 1585, was an English organist and
composer whose career spanned the reigns of four monarchs and a long p-
eriod of religious change. He was organist of Dover Priory in 1532 but
moved to London (Saint Mary-at-Hill) and then to Waltham Abbey, where
the excellent choir and acoustics probably inspired him to compose his
early Latin motets--Ave Dei Patris, Gaude gloriosa, and Salve intemerat-
a--in the expansive and melismatic style then in favor. On the dissolut-
ion of the abbey, Tallis went to Canterbury for two years as a lay clerk
at the cathedral but soon took up an appointment at the Chapel Royal, w-
here he remained until his death. It was there that he met, taught, and
befriended William Byrd, whose elegy "Ye sacred Muses" laments the death
of his old and revered master.
Tallis was indeed a master, not of one but of many styles, including the
rich texture in the vein of Robert Fayrfax, the newer post-Reformation
counterpoint exemplified in the motets and hymns in the Cantiones sacrae
published jointly with Byrd in 1575, and the simpler, more homophonic s-
tyle of the anthems written for the publications of John Day and Archbi-
shop Parker. As an unrivaled example of a contrapuntal tour de force, T-
allis's motet Spem in alium (for eight choirs of five voices) stands al-
one; it may have been written for some great ceremonial event at which
the assembly of 40 highly trained voices would not be unusual. Many of
his Latin motets were adapted to English words, sometimes more than once;
Absterge Domine, for instance, was sung to the tune of "Discomfit them"
or "Wipe away my sins." As a virtuoso organist and virginalist, Tallis
left a small but remarkable collection of antiphons and hymn verses that
also included two massive settings of the offertory Felix namque.
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