Tallis
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 6 October 2020
- ISBN 9780190635213
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 236x155x27 mm
- Weight 612 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 26 illus. 131
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Short description:
Thomas Tallis spent more than fifty years composing music in the volatile world of Tudor England. Tallis is a clear, readable biography of a great Renaissance musician, which places the composer's music in its rich historical, cultural, and architectural context.
MoreLong description:
The composer Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 - November 1585) lived and worked through much of the turbulent Tudor period in England. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he did not just react to radical change: he thrived on it. He helped invent new musical styles to meet the demands of the English Reformation. He revived and reimagined older musical forms for a new era. Fewer than a hundred of his works have survived, but they are incredibly diverse, from miniature settings of psalms and hymns to a monumental forty-voice motet.
In this new biography, author Kerry McCarthy traces Tallis's long career from his youthful appointment at Dover Priory to his years as a senior member of the Chapel Royal, revisiting the most important documents of his life and a wide variety of his musical works. The book also takes readers on a guided journey along the River Thames to the palaces, castles, and houses where Tallis made music for the four monarchs he served. It ends with reflections on Tallis's will, his epitaph (whose complete text McCarthy has recently rediscovered), and other postmortem remembrances that give us a glimpse of his significant place in the sixteenth-century musical world. Tallis will be treasured by performers, scholars, Tudor enthusiasts, and anyone interested in English Renaissance music.
...extraordinarily readable...
Table of Contents:
Documents of Tallis's Life
1 Dover Priory (1530-31)
2 St. Mary-at-Hill (1536-38)
3 Waltham Abbey (1540)
4 Canterbury Cathedral (1541)
5 The Chapel Royal (1543-85) I: Community and Ceremony
6 The Chapel Royal (1543-85) II: A Journey Down the Thames
Documents of Tallis's Music
7 Setting the Stage: The Antiphonale of 1519-20
8 Earliest Traces
9 The Mulliner Book
10 The Peterhouse Partbooks
11 The Gyffard Partbooks
12 The Wanley and Lumley Partbooks
13 Archbishop Parker's Psalter
14 The Cantiones of 1575
15 The Baldwin Partbooks
16 Three Monuments
17 Remembrances
Appendices
A Chronology
B List of Works
C Personalia
D Select Bibliography
