His recorded legacy includes, Vaughan Williams ' Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis ', Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, and a 1966 recording of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture with the additional forces of the Band of HM Royal Marines.

Performances in recent years have included a program of little-known works by Franco-Flemish composers Johannes Ghiselin, Jacquet of Berchem, Gaspar van Weebeke, Andreas de Silva, Nicolas Payen and Josquin des Prez, a quincentennial celebration of Thomas Tallis, the first Australian performance of Arvo Pärt's ' Canon of Repentance ' ( composed in 1998 ), works by Jean Richafort and his parodists, a program of works originally written for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor a concert of settings of the text ' Media vita ' ( In the midst of life ) including a performance of Gombert's own ' Missa de media vita ', German Baroque masterpieces by Johann Hermann Schein, Michael Praetorius, Heinrich Schütz and Johann Sebastian Bach, Alessandro Scarlatti's ' Stabat mater ', and an annual concert entitled ' Christmas to Candlemas ' that presents works written for the numerous Christian feast-days in the forty-day Church season that begins on Christmas Day.

This is partially because we do not have all of his works from previous periods ; eleven of eighteen Latin-texted pieces by Tallis from Elizabeth's reign were published, " which ensured their survival in a way not available to the earlier material.

While the texts of the motets included by Byrd and Tallis in the 1575 Cantiones have a High Anglican doctrinal tone, scholars such as Joseph Kerman have detected a profound change of direction in the texts which Byrd set in the motets of the 1580s.

Tallis and Byrd used their monopoly to produce Cantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur but the piece did not sell well and they appealed to Queen Elizabeth for her support.

Tallis wrote nine psalm chant tunes for four voices for Archbishop Parker's Psalter, published in 1567.

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.

The earliest known examples are single chants, dating from the late 16th century, written by Thomas Tallis and his contemporaries, so it seems likely that Anglican chant was devised by them to provide musical settings for the English language version of the psalter translated by Coverdale, as published in the then new Book of Common Prayer.

On 15 September 2010, Tallis, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in The Guardian, stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the UK.

leftIn January 2003, Tallis ' book Raging Bull was published.

Although anthems were written in the Elizabethan period by Tallis ( 1505 – 1585 ), Byrd ( 1539 – 1623 ), and others, they are not mentioned in the Book of Common Prayer until 1662, when the famous rubric " In quires and places where they sing here followeth the Anthem " first appears.

The team was quickly built through a number of trades engineered by its first General Manager, Cedric Tallis, including a trade for Lou Piniella, who won the Rookie of the Year during the Royals ' inaugural season.

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 ).

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.

There are 17 motets each by Tallis and Byrd, one for each year of the Queen's reign.

His recordings include the lute songs of Dowland, operas by Handel, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, songs and semioperas by Purcell ( such as The Fairy Queen ), traditional English folk songs, works by Thomas Tallis, and the Bach alto repertoire.

* Physician Raymond Tallis describes the psychoanalytic school established by Jacques Lacan as an example of cargo cult science.

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

* Ralph Vaughan Williams-Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus, Concerto Grosso

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.

This final verse, separated from its proper hymns and sung to the tune " Old 100th ", " Duke Street ", " Lasst uns erfreuen ", " The Eighth Tune " by Thomas Tallis, among others, frequently marks the dedication of alms or offerings at Sunday worship.

Among the Library's most valuable possessions are the manuscripts of Purcell's The Fairy-Queen, Sullivan's The Mikado, Vaughan Williams ' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and Serenade to Music, and the newly discovered Handel Gloria.

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.

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.

No contemporary portrait of Tallis survives: the earliest, painted by Gerard van der Gucht, dates from 150 years after Tallis died, and there is no certainty that it is a likeness.

Tallis acquired a volume at the dissolution of the monastery of Waltham Holy Cross and preserved it ; one of the treatises in it was by Leonel Power, and the treatise itself prohibits consecutive unisons, fifths, and octaves.

Tallis married around 1552 ; his wife, Joan, outlived him by four years.

: See List of compositions by Thomas Tallis

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

In 1577 Byrd and Tallis were forced to petition Queen Elizabeth for financial help pleading that the publication had ' fallen oute to oure greate losse ' and that Tallis was now ' verie aged '.

Byrd is honored together with John Merbecke and Thomas Tallis with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church ( USA ) on November 21.

* William Byrd and Thomas Tallis, In Chains of Gold.

Throughout his service to successive monarchs as organist and composer, Tallis avoided the religious controversies that raged around him, though, like William Byrd, he stayed an " unreformed Roman Catholic.

" Tallis was also a teacher, not only of William Byrd, but also of Elway Bevin, an organist of Bristol Cathedral and gentleman of the Chapel Royal.

" 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 is honoured together with William Byrd and John Merbecke with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church ( USA ) on 21 November.

Toward the end of his life, Tallis resisted the musical development seen in his younger contemporaries such as William Byrd, who embraced compositional complexity and adopted texts built by combining disparate biblical extracts.

* Tallis, Byrd and Guerrero, The Flowering of Genius The Sixteen ( CORO16001 )

* William Byrd and Thomas Tallis, In Chains of Gold.

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.

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.

Tallis argues that Lacan, who was poorly trained in both traditional medicine and psychoanalysis, superficially mimicked medicine and science, and that Lacan's later devotees similarly mimic their guru's confused concepts.

Thomas Tallis was the last organist at the Abbey prior to its dissolution.

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 ).

Another formative experience for the young Howells was the premiere in September 1910 at the Gloucester Three Choirs Festival of Ralph Vaughan Williams ' Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis.

Both Vaughan Williams and the Tudor composers of which Tallis was one profoundly influenced Howells ' later work.

He was next sent to Court as Gentleman of the Chapel Royal in 1543 ( which later became a Protestant establishment ), where he composed and performed for Henry VIII, Edward VI ( 1547 – 1553 ), Queen Mary ( 1553 – 1558 ), and Queen Elizabeth I ( 1558 until Tallis died in 1585 ).

" Tallis was capable of switching the style of his compositions to suit the different monarchs ' vastly different demands.

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

The reformed Anglican liturgy was inaugurated during the short reign of Edward VI ( 1547 – 53 ), and Tallis was one of the first church musicians to write anthems set to English words, although Latin continued to be used.

Tallis was content to draw his texts from the Liturgy and wrote for the worship services in the Chapel Royal.

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.

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.

Sheppard was one of the finest English church composers of the Tudor era, his achievements matched in his generation only by Thomas Tallis.