Thomas Tallis - Why fumth in fight

9 Psalm Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter

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Music

Tags:

• Stile
• Antico
• Thomas
• Tallis
• Renaissance
• Motet
• Psalm

[darushkii]

who are the singers? this is wonderful. is there a full version with all 9 psalms by the same group?

[Elizium1970]

@darushkii ensemble - Stile Antico 

[mush01]

I find it interesting that in Stile Antico's arrangement the tenor seems to carry the tune, unlike the Vaughan Williams arrangement (and many other ones I've heard) where the soprano takes precedence. It gives it a slightly different feel to other versions.

[oakmag]

You deserve a comment! I've left a couple to others regarding this same Tallis piece and so, I acknowledge your efforts as well. I'm delighted to hear the source of inspiration for the glorious Vaughan-Williams "Fantasia." Lovely, and oh, too brief! Makes me long for more. Thanks so much for posting it.

[Triciamanntrololo]

Why would you dislike this?

[gerubach]

@mush01: Stile Antico is following the instruction left by Mr. Tallis - "The Tenor of these partes be for the people when they will syng alone, the other parts, put for greater queers, or to suche as will syng or play them priuatelye."

[hobojoe9127]

Peeps be fum'thing 'n fighting...

[radioplug14]

@wcbroccoli What record was there to set straight? I mentioned Palestrina as an example of a contemporary of Tallis - they wrote in the same time period - Renaissance. I know Tallis isn't Medieval just like how I already knew everything you said here. You're not saying anything contradictory to my posts. You might be thinking I said something else - such as my reply to another post. But I see that your need to "educate" someone is overriding general kindness. I'm sorry but your posts are rude.

[radioplug14]

@wcbroccoli I'm glad that your insightful comments educated a person with over 2 years of 16th century counterpoint courses and pre-Baroque music history courses... *sarcasm* (You realize nothing you said has contradicted anything I've said, right? But keep riding your pedestal, because clearly you are the only person who knows about Renaissance music. I mean, you do know Palestrina was Renaissance, right? [see previous comment])

[radioplug14]

@wcbroccoli The tenor part is still in Phyrgian without any accidentals. The tenor part by Tallis' time was not the lowest part anymore. See Palestrina, esp. The tenor dissolved from having the CF by Josquin's imitative counterpoint, which Tallis is after historically. However, it was still crucial to many composers for setting the mode. I like to think of the accidentals as chromatic colorations by the composers - see Victoria (all) and Lassus' secular works. But thanks for your comments.

[mush01]

@wcbroccoli I realised this later - I was just starting to develop an interest in Renaissance music at the time, so you'll have to forgive my year-and-a-bit-ago self's naivety :)

[tonytonytonyargh]

I beg a citation-performers/date/locat­ion/what recording. Need to add in these credits!