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.

Tallis ', and a reference in the prefatory material to the Cantiones sacrae published by Tallis and Byrd in 1575 tends to confirm that Byrd was a pupil of Thomas Tallis of the Chapel Royal.

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 '.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

They may also reflect the fact that Byrd's fellow monopolist Tallis and his printer Thomas Vautrollier had died, thus creating a more propitious climate for publishing ventures.

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

The Temple Church's excellent acoustics have also attracted secular musicians: Sir John Barbirolli recorded a famous performance of the Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan Williams there in 1962 ( at the suggestion of Bernard Herrmann ), and Paul Tortelier made his recording of the complete Bach Cello Suites there in April 1982.

Like Tallis, Sheppard also composed alternatim hymns, with the even-numbered verses sung to polyphony with chant cantus firmus and the odd-numbered verses left to be chanted.

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.

They have also been set to music by many composers, of whom the most famous are Palestrina, Tallis, Lassus, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, François Couperin, Ernst Krenek ( Lamentatio Jeremiae prophetae, op.

Tallis is also a Patron of Dignity in Dying.

In 2007, she also starred in the Oscar-nominated movie Atonement as the teenaged Briony Tallis.

Tallis also worked on the coaching staff of the South Sydney Rabbitohs.

Tallis was used to good effect off the interchange bench during the 1994 season and also made his representative debut for the Queensland side in the final two State of Origin matches that year.

Tallis scored a try in Australia's 64 – 10 win in that match and was later named Test leader ( in Johns ' absence ) for the one-off Test against New Zealand in October, which Australia also won 32 – 24.

Tallis ' Spem in alium has also inspired several modern composers to write 40-part choral works, for example Giles Swayne's The Silent Land ( 1998 ), Jaakko Mäntyjärvi's Tentatio ( 2006 ) and Peter McGarr's Love You Big as the Sky ( 2007 ).

Sonja Tallis is an Australian actress, singer, and drama teacher.

Nonsuch possessed an octagonal banqueting hall, which in turn had four first-floor balconies: it can be speculated that Tallis designed the music to be sung not only in the round, but with four of the eight five-part choirs singing from the balconies.

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

* 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 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.

* 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.

Examples of the genre include compositions by Christopher Tye ( the most prolific composer of In Nomines, with 24 surviving settings ), Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, John Bull, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Tomkins, William Lawes, and Henry Purcell, among many others.

Composers such as William Byrd, Doctor John Bull, Orlando Gibbons and Thomas Tallis.

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.

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 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.

* Pavana Lachrymae ( By Thomas Tallis, set by William Byrd )

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.

The chapel's choir, known as the Children of the Chapel Royal, achieved its greatest eminence during the reign of Elizabeth I, when William Byrd and Thomas Tallis were joint organists.

These range late Renaissance composers such as Thomas Tallis, William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons, to high Victorian geniuses such as Charles Villiers Stanford, Thomas Attwood Walmisley and to later masters of the form such as Herbert Murrill, Herbert Howells and Basil Harwood.

Composers of gymel include John Dunstaple, William Cornysh, Richard Davy, John Browne, and ( much later ) both Thomas Tallis and Robert Parsons, as well as the numerous named and anonymous composers in sources such as the Eton Choirbook and the Caius Choirbook, among the few collections of English music to survive from the 15th century.

Merbecke is honoured, together with William Byrd and Thomas Tallis, with a feast day in the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church ( United States ) on 21 November.

Intrigued, they make the drive two days later to Los Angeles County's high desert to find its author, William Tallis.