Canon
Where to start with Tallis
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
Vocal9 Psalm Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter
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ChamberSpem in alium
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KeyboardClarifica me pater
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VocalA new commandment
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VocalAbsterge Domine
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VocalAudivi vocem
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VocalAve Dei patris filia
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VocalBenedictus
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VocalBlessed are those
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VocalCandidi facti sunt Nazarei
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KeyboardClarifica me pater
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KeyboardClarifica me pater
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VocalDerelinquit impius
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VocalDiscomfort them O Lord
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VocalDum transisset Sabbatum
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Tallis's catalogueMost Popular
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Spem in alium (40-voice motet)
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If Ye Love Me
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Lamentations of Jeremiah
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O Nata Lux
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Gaude gloriosa
Most Acclaimed
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Spem in alium
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Gaude gloriosa
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Lamentations of Jeremiah
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Missa Puer natus est nobis
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In manus tuas
Most Weird
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Spem in alium8 choirs of 5 voices each — 40 independent voices; the moment when all 40 enter simultaneously is overwhelming; written for a visit by the Duke of Norfolk
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Lamentations of Jeremiahwritten when Catholicism was dangerous in England; the sorrow is real and double-coded
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Fantasia on a faux-bourdon (keyboard)the only keyboard work by Tallis — the technique is the subject
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Salvator mundi (two settings)he wrote two completely different settings of the same text on the same day — a competition with himself
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Absterge Dominethe chromatic harmonies are unusual for the period
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 76
- Vocal
- 9 Psalm Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter
- A new commandment
- Absterge Domine
- Audivi vocem
- Ave Dei patris filia
- Benedictus
- Blessed are those
- Candidi facti sunt Nazarei
- Derelinquit impius
- Discomfort them O Lord
- Dum transisset Sabbatum
- Fond Youth is a Bubble
- Gaude gloriosa Dei mater
- Glory to thee, my God, this night
- Hear the voice and prayer
- Honor, virtus et potestas
- If ye love Me
- In jejunio et fletu
- In manus tuas
- In pace in idipsum
- Jam Christus astra ascenderat
- Jesu Salvator saeculi
- Lamentations
- Lamentations
- Like as the doleful dove
- Loquebantur variis lingui, P.272
- Magnificat
- Mass
- Mass
- Mass
- Mihi autem nimis
- Miserere nostri
- Miserere nostri, P.207
- O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit
- O Lord, in thee is all my trust
- O nata lux de lumine, P.209
- O sacrum convivium
- O salutaris hostia
- O ye tender babes
- Purge Me, O Lord
- Salvator mundi
- Salvator mundi
- Salve intemerata virgo
- Sancte Deus
- Sermone blando angelus
- Spem in alium 'Sing and Glorify' P.299
- Suscipe quaeso Domine; Si enim iniquitates
- Suscipe quaeso, P.222
- Te Deum
- Te lucis ante terminum
- Te lucis ante terminum
- Verily, verily I say unto you
- Videte miraculum
- When shall my sorrowful sighing slake
- Chamber
- Spem in alium
- In Nomine
- In Nomine
- Solfaing Song
- Keyboard
- Clarifica me pater
- Clarifica me pater
- Clarifica me pater
- Ecce tempus idoneum
- Ecce tempus idoneum
- Ex more docti myistico
- Fantasy
- Felix namque
- Felix namque
- Gloria tibi Trinitas
- Iste confessor
- Jam lucis orto sidere
- Lesson 'Two parts in one'
- Natus est nobis
- Per haec nos
- Poyncte for the Virginals
- Veni Redemptor gentium
- Veni Redemptor gentium