Tallis

Kerry McCarthy (Author, Author)

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English

Oxford University Press Inc
05 November 2020

Western "classical" music; Medieval & Renaissance music (c 1000 to c 1600); Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Social & cultural history

Series: Composers Across Cultures

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.

By: Kerry McCarthy (Author Author)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 155mm, Width: 236mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 612g
ISBN: 9780190635213
ISBN 10: 0190635215
Series: Composers Across Cultures
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 05 November 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Tallis

Once more we are in Kerry McCarthy's debt for producing an elegantly concise and richly-informative introduction to one of the giants of Tudor music, replete with exciting recent scholarly discoveries and enriched with informative illustrations. * Diarmaid MacCulloch, Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford * Unlike Byrd and Taverner, Tallis has been waiting a long time for a major appraisal. Following the success of her volume on Byrd, Kerry McCarthy has brought all her love and understanding of Tudor polyphony to bear on this incomparable master. Her writing flows as fluently and clearly as Tallis's own. Tallis will become a standard textbook. * Peter Phillips, founder and director of The Tallis Scholars *