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Beschreibung
The composer Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 - November 1585) lived and worked through much of the turbulent Tudor period in England. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he did not just react to radical change: he thrived on it. He helped invent new musical styles to meet the demands of the English Reformation. He revived and reimagined older musical forms for a new era. Fewer than a hundred of his works have survived, but they are incredibly diverse, from miniature settings of psalms and hymns to a monumental forty-voice motet.

In this new biography, author Kerry McCarthy traces Tallis's long career from his youthful appointment at Dover Priory to his years as a senior member of the Chapel Royal, revisiting the most important documents of his life and a wide variety of his musical works. The book also takes readers on a guided journey along the River Thames to the palaces, castles, and houses where Tallis made music for the four monarchs he served. It ends with reflections on Tallis's will, his epitaph (whose complete text McCarthy has recently rediscovered), and other postmortem remembrances that give us a glimpse of his significant place in the sixteenth-century musical world. Tallis will be treasured by performers, scholars, Tudor enthusiasts, and anyone interested in English Renaissance music.
The composer Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 - November 1585) lived and worked through much of the turbulent Tudor period in England. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he did not just react to radical change: he thrived on it. He helped invent new musical styles to meet the demands of the English Reformation. He revived and reimagined older musical forms for a new era. Fewer than a hundred of his works have survived, but they are incredibly diverse, from miniature settings of psalms and hymns to a monumental forty-voice motet.

In this new biography, author Kerry McCarthy traces Tallis's long career from his youthful appointment at Dover Priory to his years as a senior member of the Chapel Royal, revisiting the most important documents of his life and a wide variety of his musical works. The book also takes readers on a guided journey along the River Thames to the palaces, castles, and houses where Tallis made music for the four monarchs he served. It ends with reflections on Tallis's will, his epitaph (whose complete text McCarthy has recently rediscovered), and other postmortem remembrances that give us a glimpse of his significant place in the sixteenth-century musical world. Tallis will be treasured by performers, scholars, Tudor enthusiasts, and anyone interested in English Renaissance music.
Über den Autor
Kerry McCarthy is a musician and author known for her work on early English music. Her recent book on William Byrd, published by Oxford University Press, was given the 2014 ASCAP Nicolas Slonimsky Award for composer biography of the year.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Documents of Tallis's Life

  • 1 Dover Priory (1530-31)

  • 2 St. Mary-at-Hill (1536-38)

  • 3 Waltham Abbey (1540)

  • 4 Canterbury Cathedral (1541)

  • 5 The Chapel Royal (1543-85) I: Community and Ceremony

  • 6 The Chapel Royal (1543-85) II: A Journey Down the Thames

  • Documents of Tallis's Music

  • 7 Setting the Stage: The Antiphonale of 1519-20

  • 8 Earliest Traces

  • 9 The Mulliner Book

  • 10 The Peterhouse Partbooks

  • 11 The Gyffard Partbooks

  • 12 The Wanley and Lumley Partbooks

  • 13 Archbishop Parker's Psalter

  • 14 The Cantiones of 1575

  • 15 The Baldwin Partbooks

  • 16 Three Monuments

  • 17 Remembrances

  • Appendices

  • A Chronology

  • B List of Works

  • C Personalia

  • D Select Bibliography

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Importe, Musik
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Allg. Handbücher & Lexika
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780190635213
ISBN-10: 0190635215
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: McCarthy, Kerry
Komponist: McCarthy, Kerry
Hersteller: Oxford University Press Inc
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 238 x 161 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Kerry McCarthy
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.10.2020
Gewicht: 0,53 kg
Artikel-ID: 118866648

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