However, the use of adult male falsettos in polyphony, commonly in the alto range, was common in all-male sacred choirs for some decades previous, as early as the mid-16th century, and modern-day ensembles such as the Tallis Scholars and The Sixteen maintain the use of male altos in period works.

The choir is directed by Peter Phillips, currently also director of the Tallis Scholars and Benjamin Nicholas, director of music at Tewkesbury Abbey

The Tallis Scholars: GIMELL.

Historically informed recordings have been released by The Sixteen and The Tallis Scholars, and more recently by Tenebrae.

* Peter Phillips ( conductor ) ( born 1953 ), director of the Tallis Scholars

* Brumel's Missa Et ecce terræ motus (" Earthquake " Mass ) and Lamentations performed by the Tallis Scholars under the direction of Peter Phillips ( Gimell 26 ).

The Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips ( Gimmell )

Early Music – Cipriano de Rore: Missa Praeter rerum seriem ; The Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips, Gimell

Tallis Scholars.

The Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips.

* Nicolas Gombert, Magnificats 1-4, Tallis Scholars, CD Gimell CDGIM 037

* Nicolas Gombert, Magnificats 5-8, Tallis Scholars, CD Gimell CDGIM 038

* Missa Maria zart, Gimell CDGIM 032, performed by the Tallis Scholars, directed by Peter Phillips.

* Versa est in luctum, with the Victoria Requiem, The Tallis Scholars, directed by Peter Phillips ( Gimell, CDGIM 012 )

* Missa Maria Magdalene, with the motet Maria Magdalene by Guerrero, The Tallis Scholars, directed by Peter Phillips ( Gimell, CDGIM 031 )

The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips.

The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips.

The work was recently unearthed by Berkeley musicologist Davitt Moroney and identified as a parody mass, Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno, and received its first modern performance at the Royal Albert Hall during the London Proms on 17 July 2007 by the BBC Singers and The Tallis Scholars conducted by Moroney.

Reference in CD liner notes to Spem in Alium by Tallis Scholars, Gimell CDGIM 006.

Jensen's attitude to traditional Anglican styles of cathedral worship has drawn criticism, especially from defenders of classical sacred music such as the Tallis Scholars ' director, Peter Phillips, who accused him of " vandalising " Anglican culture .< ref > ABC PM, 30 January 2008 < cite > Archbishop of Sydney ' vandalising ' Anglican culture </ cite > Go to external link Jensen has defended his changes in the cathedral's style of worship on the grounds of attempting to broaden the demographic of the congregation.

* Tallis Scholars

On 22 January 2011 they were directed by Peter Phillips in a performance with the Tallis Scholars Summer School of a program which included Tallis's Spem in alium.

* Lamentation for Maundy Thursday on Lamentations of Jeremiah by The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips ( conductor ).

The Tallis Scholars are a British vocal ensemble normally consisting of two singers per part, with a core group of ten singers.

An example is the 40-part choral motet Love You Big as the Sky by British composer Peter McGarr ( commissioned for the Tallis Festival 2007 ).

Other notable British composers ; Henry Purcell, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten, Gustav Holst, William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, Henry Wood, John Taverner, John Blow, Arthur Sullivan, William Walton, John Stafford Smith, Henry Bishop, Ivor Novello, Malcolm Arnold, Michael Tippett and John Barry have made major contributions to British music, and are known internationally.

Part of Ian McEwan's award-winning novel " Atonement " ( 2001 ) centers on Briony Tallis, a nurse in a London hospital in June 1940, to which wounded British and French soldiers evacuated from Dunkirk were brought.

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, also known as the Tallis Fantasia, is a work for string orchestra by the British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.

** Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, composed in 1910 by British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams

Recordings include those by the Choir of Winchester Cathedral ; the Tallis Scholars, the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, the Oxford Camerata ; the Choirs of King's and St John's Colleges, Cambridge ; The Sixteen ; The Clerkes of Oxenford ; Cantillation ; Huelgas Ensemble ; Philip Cave's Magnificat ; and, most recently ( 2006 ), by the British male a cappella group, the King's Singers.

You might have to reach back to Vaughan Williams ’ s Serenade to Music, or even Tallis, to find another British vocal work so exultant.

De lamentatione, another early work, is a contribution to the Elizabethan practice of setting groups of verses from the Lamentations of Jeremiah following the format of the Tenebrae lessons sung in the Catholic rite during the last three days of Holy Week, other contributors including Tallis, White, Parsley and the elder Ferrabosco.

To fill the now empty cells, a mass transfer from Barnhurst after a riot there had burnt out a cellblock ( and had ended in the off-screen death of Bea Smith ) introduced five new inmates to the series – Nora Flynn ( Sonja Tallis ), a reformed triple murderess, ageing cat burglar May Collins ( Billie Hammerberg ) and her partner in crime, former fence Willie Beecham ( Kirsty Child – who had played a corrupt prison officer who was later incarcerated and murdered in the prison in early episodes ), garden-loving misfit Daphne Graham ( Debra Lawrance ) and shy but highly intelligent thief Julie Egbert ( Jackie Woodburne ).

Thomas Tallis ( c. 1505 – 23 November 1585 the Julian calendar, 3 December 1585, by the Gregorian calendar ) was an English composer who occupies a primary place in anthologies of English church music, and is considered one of England's greatest early composers.

A fictionalised Thomas Tallis was portrayed by Joe Van Moyland in 2007 on the Showtime television series The Tudors, loosely based upon the early reign of Henry VIII.

It has released work by various composers, from the early ( such as Thomas Tallis ) to the contemporary ( such as John Cage, Elliot Carter, and Steve Reich ).

In 1621, Thomas Ravenscroft published an expanded edition of the Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter ; Ravenscroft's edition added many more psalm tunes, some of which were composed since the first publication by leading late Tudor and early Stuart English composers such as Thomas Morley, Thomas Tallis, John Dowland, and Thomas Tomkins.

* January 21 – * Queen Elizabeth I of England grants a monopoly on producing printed sheet music to Thomas Tallis and William Byrd

In 1575 Byrd and Tallis were jointly granted a patent for the printing of music and ruled music paper for 21 years, one of a number of patents issued by the Crown for the printing of books on various subjects.

The " Mag and Nunc " was set by many composers-such as Thomas Tallis, Herbert Sumsion, Charles Wood and John Tavener-of Anglican church music, often for choir a cappella or choir and organ.

From the late 1930s Howells turned increasingly to choral and organ music, composing a second series of Psalm Preludes followed by a set of Six Pieces ( begun 1939 ), of which the third, Master Tallis's Testament, a particular favorite of the composer's, recalled his formative experience of Vaughan Williams ' Tallis Fantasia.

Tallis had exclusive rights to print any music, in any language.

" Also, Byrd and Tallis were not given " the rights to music type fonts, printing patents were not under their command, and they didn't actually own a printing press.

Tallis helped found a relationship that was specific to the combining of words and music.

Tallis composed during a difficult period during the conflict between Catholicism and Protestantism, and his music often displays characteristics of the turmoil.

Barbadian Christmas music is mostly based on church and concert hall performances, where typical North American Christmas carols are performed, such as " White Christmas " and " Silver Bells ", alongside works by English composers like William Byrd, Henry Walford Davies and Thomas Tallis.

Terry built Westminster Cathedral Choir's reputation on performances of music — by Byrd, Tallis, Taverner, Palestrina and Victoria, among others — that had not been heard since the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and Mass at the cathedral was soon attended by inquisitive musicians as well as the faithful.

Early music – Tallis Gaude gloriosa

Much of the Gyffard music may have been composed during Sheppard ’ s Oxford years ( the compiler had formerly been a Fellow of Merton College Oxford ); but the music from the Christ Church part-books probably formed part of the repertory of the Chapel Royal choir during the 1550s, when Sheppard, Tallis and William Mundy were the three principal composing members of the choir.

After he dies, Tallis for a moment imagines the life she might have had if Luc had survived and if she had married him and come to live with him in Millau: " She imagined the unavailable future-the boulangerie in a narrow shady street swarming with skinny cats, piano music from an upstairs window, her giggling sisters-in-law teasing her about her accent, and Luc Cornet loving her in his eager way.

After earning his Ph. D. in musicology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980 with a thesis on the music of Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, he returned to Paris and worked mainly as a freelance performer until returning to the United States to serve on the faculty at UC Berkeley in 2001.

Stylistically, his music has much in common with other middle Renaissance work of the Iberian peninsula, for example a preference for harmony heard as functional by the modern ear ( root motions of fourths or fifths being somewhat more common than in, for example, Gombert or Palestrina ), and a free use of harmonic cross-relations rather like one hears in English music of the time, for example in Thomas Tallis.

The colossal polychoral productions of the Venetian School had been anticipated in the works of Thomas Tallis, and the Palestrina style from the Roman School had already been absorbed prior to the publication of Musical transalpina, in the music of masters such as William Byrd.

There is some evidence that he may have had the music for either this piece or his 40 / 60 voice mass with him on his diplomatic visit to London in 1567, since Thomas Tallis seems to have been inspired and challenged by it, and shortly afterwards wrote his own 40-voice tour-de-force Spem in alium, commissioned by the Earl of Leicester for Queen Elizabeth.

In her Forty Part Motet she placed 40 speakers in 8 groups, each speaker playing a recording of one voice singing Thomas Tallis ' Spem in alium, enabling the audience to walk through the space and " sample " individual voices of the polyphonic vocal music.