* Thomas Tallis

* November 23 – Thomas Tallis, English composer ( b. c. 1510 )

* Thomas Tallis

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

Most often choirs consist of four sections intended to sing in four part harmony, but there is no limit to the number of possible parts as long as there is a singer available to sing the part: Thomas Tallis wrote a 40-part motet entitled Spem in alium, for eight choirs of five parts each ; Krzysztof Penderecki's Stabat Mater is for three choirs of 16 voices each, a total of 48 parts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The nearby Thomas Tallis School is built on the former site of an RAF aerodrome, formerly a barrage balloon centre.

* Thomas Tallis School — opened in 1971

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

* Thomas Tallis

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.

* Thomas Tallis: Mass " Puer natus est nobis " ( 1554 )

* Ralph Vaughan Williams-Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, Symphony No. 1 (' A Sea Symphony ')

* 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.

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.

Thomas Tallis

* Otford Palace: a medieval palace, rebuilt by Archbishop Warham c. 1515 and forfeited to the Crown by Thomas Cranmer in 1537.

Thomas Aquinas ( c. 1225 – 1274 ), a theologian in Medieval Europe, adapted the argument he found in his reading of Aristotle and Avicenna to form one of the most influential versions of the cosmological argument.

* 1475 – Thomas Murner, German writer ( d. c. 1537 )

" The Garden of Eden " by Thomas Cole ( c. 1828 )

* 1720 – Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councillor ( b. c. 1654 )

Saint Thomas Aquinas of Aquin, or Aquino ( c. 1225 – 7 March 1274 ) was a philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition, known as " Doctor Angelicus, Doctor Universalis ".

A poster for a circa | c. 1884 American production of Macbeth, starring Thomas W. Keene.

* 1525 – Thomas Müntzer, German rebel leader ( b. c. 1488 )

Thomas Aquinas ( c. 1225 – 1274 ), wrote Summa Theologica and Summa Contra Gentiles which both present various versions of the Cosmological argument and Teleological argument, respectively.

Another reference is provided by Thomas Gale, Dean of York ( c. 1635 – 1702 ), but this comes nearly four hundred years after the events it describes:

Thomas was the son of Col. Richard Lee II, Esq., " the scholar " ( 1647 – 1715 ) and Laetitia Corbin ( c. 1657 – 1706 ).

In 1698 Thomas Savery ( c. 1650 – 1715 ) patented an early steam engine.

Study for a portrait of Thomas More's family, c. 1527, by Hans Holbein the Younger

Rowland Lockey after Hans Holbein the Younger, The Family of Sir Thomas More, c. 1594

Sir Thomas Malory ( c. 1405 – 14 March 1471 ) was an English writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d ' Arthur.

The earliest known use of the term " transubstantiation " to describe the change from bread and wine to body and blood of Christ was by Hildebert de Lavardin, Archbishop of Tours ( died 1133 ), in about 1079, long before the Latin West, under the influence especially of Thomas Aquinas ( c. 1227-1274 ), accepted Aristotelianism.

Mrs Thomas Hibbert, c. 1780s.

Image: Thomas Gainsborough 017. jpg | Two Daughters with a Cat ( c. 1759 )

Image: Karl Friedrich Abel by Thomas Gainsborough. jpg | Portrait of the Composer Carl Friedrich Abel with his Viola da Gamba ( c. 1765 )

File: Thomas Gainsborough 001. jpg | The Harvest Wagon ( c. 1767 )

Image: Thomas Gainsborough Richard Savage. JPG | The Honorable Richard Savage Nassau de Zuylestein, M. P., ( c. 1778 – 80 ), oil on canvas, The Detroit Institute of Arts

Thomas Bowdler was born at Box, near Bath, Somerset, the youngest son of the six children of Thomas Bowdler ( c. 1719 – 1785 ), a banker of substantial fortune, and his wife, Elizabeth, née Cotton ( d. 1797 ), the daughter of Sir John Cotton of Conington, Huntingdonshire.

By Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1765.

* c. 1730: The octant navigational tool was developed by John Hadley in England, and Thomas Godfrey in America