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Today we’re talking about Thomas Tallis…
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Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "Greenery" [youtube.com/watch?v=qeIkbW49B6A]
SFX from freesfx.co.uk/Default.aspx
Thomas Tallis compositions mentioned:
Salve Intemerata: youtube.com/watch?v=Xbz54SkllJs
Te Deum: youtube.com/watch?v=AkqUFPV1aC8
Gaude Gloriosa Dei Mater: youtube.com/watch?v=Rm7ylraYrGU
Spem In Alium: youtube.com/watch?v=iT-ZAAi4UQQ
Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):
Relief map of England (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:England_relief_location_map.jpg)
Engravings of seals of St Martin's Priory and Nunnery at Dover, Kent, England. The engraver is John Coney, architectural draughtsman and etcher (1820). Originally in Seals of Monasteries of the Benedictine Order, from the New Monasticon. by John Coney (1820).
Photograph of St Mary-at-Hill taken in 2008 by Steve Cadman from London, U.K.
Photograph of the exterior of Waltham Abbey Church viewed from the southeast taken in 2022 by The wub.
Screenshot from nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency-converter/#currency-result
Photograph of Canterbury Cathedral UK from the south-west taken in 2006 by Antony McCallum.
Engraving of Thomas Tallis by Niccolò Haym after a portrait by Gerard van der Gucht (18th-century). Reproduced in The Musical Times (1913) H.W. Gray, New York; Novello, London.
Image of Henry VIII with his feet upon the Pope from John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments (The Book of Martyrs).
Conjectural tomb for Henry VIII from St George's College - stgeorges-windsor.org/archives/archives-learning-resouces-conjectural-tomb-for-henry-viii
Illustration from a manuscript Book of Hours, titled Horae beatae Mariae virginis (use of Sarum). Circa 1400. MS Richardson 5, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“King Edward VI and the Pope” by unknown artist (c.1575). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.
Title page of the 1549 Book of Common Prayer. Held by the British Library.
Edward VI's "devise for the succession", 1553, written in his own hand. (Inner Temple, Petyt MS 538, vol. 47 fo. 317.) In this document, Edward bypassed the claims to the throne of his half-sisters Mary and Elizabeth in favour of Lady Jane Dudley (née Grey). In the fourth line, Edward has changed "L Janes heires masles" to "L Jane and her heires masles".
Portrait of Mary I by Antonis Mor (1554). Held by the Museo del Prado.
Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I by an unknown English artist (c.1600). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.
Detail of the 450 year-old Thomas Tallis’s motet Gaude gloriosa manuscript. Held by Oxford Corpus Christi College MS 566. Image credit DIAMM.ac.uk
Engraving of William Byrd by Gerard Vandergucht (c.1730-1770). Held by the British Museum.
Frontispiece from Thomas Tallis and William Byrd "Cantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur" (1575).
Portrait of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk by an unknown Anglo-Netherlandish artist (1565). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.
Portrait of Henry Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel by an unknown Anglo-Netherlandish artist (1560s). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.
Quoted texts:
John Milsom, ODNB entry on Thomas Tallis
“Ye Sacred Muses” by William Byrd.
Also consulted, were:
W.H. Gratton Flood, “New Light on Late Tudor Composers” in the Musical Times.
Suzanne Cole, Thomas Tallis and his Music in Victorian England.
John Harley, Thomas Tallis.
Kerry McCarthy, Tallis.
Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.
#Tudor #History #Reformation
Today we’re talking about Thomas Tallis…
Please check out my website and sign up to the mailing list to receive updates from me: katrinamarchant.com
I hope you enjoy this video and find it interesting!
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Also, if you want to get in touch, please comment down below or find me on social media:
Instagram and Threads: katrina.marchant
Twitter: @kat_marchant
TikTok: @katrina_marchant
Email: readingthepastwithdrkat@gmail.com
Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "Greenery" [youtube.com/watch?v=qeIkbW49B6A]
SFX from freesfx.co.uk/Default.aspx
Thomas Tallis compositions mentioned:
Salve Intemerata: youtube.com/watch?v=Xbz54SkllJs
Te Deum: youtube.com/watch?v=AkqUFPV1aC8
Gaude Gloriosa Dei Mater: youtube.com/watch?v=Rm7ylraYrGU
Spem In Alium: youtube.com/watch?v=iT-ZAAi4UQQ
Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):
Relief map of England (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:England_relief_location_map.jpg)
Engravings of seals of St Martin's Priory and Nunnery at Dover, Kent, England. The engraver is John Coney, architectural draughtsman and etcher (1820). Originally in Seals of Monasteries of the Benedictine Order, from the New Monasticon. by John Coney (1820).
Photograph of St Mary-at-Hill taken in 2008 by Steve Cadman from London, U.K.
Photograph of the exterior of Waltham Abbey Church viewed from the southeast taken in 2022 by The wub.
Screenshot from nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency-converter/#currency-result
Photograph of Canterbury Cathedral UK from the south-west taken in 2006 by Antony McCallum.
Engraving of Thomas Tallis by Niccolò Haym after a portrait by Gerard van der Gucht (18th-century). Reproduced in The Musical Times (1913) H.W. Gray, New York; Novello, London.
Image of Henry VIII with his feet upon the Pope from John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments (The Book of Martyrs).
Conjectural tomb for Henry VIII from St George's College - stgeorges-windsor.org/archives/archives-learning-resouces-conjectural-tomb-for-henry-viii
Illustration from a manuscript Book of Hours, titled Horae beatae Mariae virginis (use of Sarum). Circa 1400. MS Richardson 5, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“King Edward VI and the Pope” by unknown artist (c.1575). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.
Title page of the 1549 Book of Common Prayer. Held by the British Library.
Edward VI's "devise for the succession", 1553, written in his own hand. (Inner Temple, Petyt MS 538, vol. 47 fo. 317.) In this document, Edward bypassed the claims to the throne of his half-sisters Mary and Elizabeth in favour of Lady Jane Dudley (née Grey). In the fourth line, Edward has changed "L Janes heires masles" to "L Jane and her heires masles".
Portrait of Mary I by Antonis Mor (1554). Held by the Museo del Prado.
Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I by an unknown English artist (c.1600). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.
Detail of the 450 year-old Thomas Tallis’s motet Gaude gloriosa manuscript. Held by Oxford Corpus Christi College MS 566. Image credit DIAMM.ac.uk
Engraving of William Byrd by Gerard Vandergucht (c.1730-1770). Held by the British Museum.
Frontispiece from Thomas Tallis and William Byrd "Cantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur" (1575).
Portrait of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk by an unknown Anglo-Netherlandish artist (1565). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.
Portrait of Henry Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel by an unknown Anglo-Netherlandish artist (1560s). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.
Quoted texts:
John Milsom, ODNB entry on Thomas Tallis
“Ye Sacred Muses” by William Byrd.
Also consulted, were:
W.H. Gratton Flood, “New Light on Late Tudor Composers” in the Musical Times.
Suzanne Cole, Thomas Tallis and his Music in Victorian England.
John Harley, Thomas Tallis.
Kerry McCarthy, Tallis.
Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.
#Tudor #History #Reformation
