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 (38)![]() | As | Instances | Incipit |
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[All-seeing Lord, whose pow'r unknown] | Thos. Tallis (Composer) | 2 | |
[Twofold Amen] (Tallis) | Thomas Tallis, c. 1505-1585 (Composer) | 5 | 32412 167 |
[Chant] (Tallis 11566) | Thomas Tallis (Composer) | 8 | 11566 71171 |
BENSON (Tallis) | Thomas Tallis, d. 1585 (Composer) | 4 | 11216 71334 32221 |
[Enter thy courts, thou Word of Life] | Thos. Tallis (Composer) | 2 | 51231 42321 71512 |
THE FIFTH TUNE | Thomas Tallis (Composer) | 4 | 13455 64543 23134 |
FIRST MODE MELODY | Thomas Tallis (Composer) | 15 | 11171 32222 5545 |
[Glory be to the Father, and to the Son] (Tallis) | T. Tallis (Composer) | 2 | 55555 55555 55555 |
[Chant] (Tallis 33233) | Tallis (Arranger) | 63 | 33233 21223 |
[Glory be to Thee, O Lord] (Tallis 11111) | T. Tallis, c. 1505-85 (Composer) | 6 | 11111 17 |
[Glory be to Thee, O Lord] (Tallis 44444) | Thomas Tallis (c. 1510-1585) (Composer) | 2 | 44444 43 |
[Glory be to Thee, O Lord] (Tallis 5555665) | Thomas Tallis, d. 1585 (Composer) | 8 | 55556 65 |
[Glory be to Thee, O Lord] (Tallis 555565) | Thomas Tallis, d. 1585 (Composer) | 5 | 55556 5 |
[Response to Scripture] (Tallis) | Thomas Tallis, 16th C. (Composer) | 2 | 55556 65 |
[Chant] (Tallis) | Thomas Tallis (Composer) | 3 | 12167 1 |
[Lord, have mercy] (Tallis) | T. Tallis (Composer) | 3 | 55536 65655 53665 |
[Chant] (Tallis 12216) | Thomas Tallis (Composer) | 2 | 12216 71 |
[Lord, have mercy upon us] (Tallis) | Thomas Tallis (Composer) | 2 | 11111 71117 2217 |
[O God, open my lips] | Thomas Tallis (Composer) | 2 | |
[Chant] (Tallis 55555) | T. Tallis (Composer) | 2 | 55555 665 |
[Chant] (171223) | Tallis (Composer) | 1 | 17122 32171 |
[Chant] (Tallis 34322) | T. Tallis (Composer) | 2 | 34322 31171 |
SECOND MODE MELODY | Thomas Tallis, 1515-1585 (Composer) | 5 | 66716 77656 77662 |
SEVENTH MODE MELODY | Thomas Tallis (Composer) | 3 | 15234 55655 45152 |
TALLIS' CANON | Thomas Tallis (Composer) | 434 | 11711 22343 14433 |
TALLIS CHANT | Tallis (Composer) | 3 | 55555 53656 71675 |
TALLIS' ORDINAL | Thomas Tallis (Composer) | 209 | 13455 66551 76651 |
TALLIS' SEVENTH TUNE | Thomas Tallis (Composer) | 2 | |
TALLIS'S HYMN | T. Tallis (Composer) | 9 | 11111 23431 44332 |
TALYS | Thomas Tallis (ca. 1505-1585) (Composer) | 2 | |
[Chant] (Tallis 57655) | Thomas Tallis (Composer) | 7 | 57655 |
THE FIRST TUNE | Thomas Tallis (Composer) | 2 | 13321 54524 56657 |
[Chant] (Tallis 51177) | T. Tallis (Composer) | 4 | 51177 71111 76666 |
[The Lord be with you] (Tallis) | Thomas Tallis (Composer) | 3 | 35555 |
[THE TEN COMMANDMENTS] TALLIS | T. Tallis (Composer) | 2 | |
THIRD MODE MELODY | Thomas Tallis (Composer) | 45 | 13333 44555 55655 |
VENI CREATOR (Tallis) | Thomas Tallis (Composer) | 5 | 11715 54556 71117 |
[When Jesus to our rescue drew] | T. Tallis (Composer) | 2 | 13211 17132 11713 |