THOMAS TALLIS

Hailey Buckley
Sep 4, 2018 · 10 min read

Music-lovers of today are most likely to associate the name of Thomas Tallis with a composition by Ralph Vaughan Williams. His “Fantasia on a theme by Tallis” is one of the great string works of the twentieth century. The only comparable work to have come close to it in the esteem of listeners and critics alike is Samuel Barber’s famous “Adagio for strings”. The two works are somewhat similar in tempo and, to a degree, in idiom. But while the Barber is expressive…

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"Alphabeticon" is a series of small books about men and women, past and present, who have been important in various fields of human endeavour, such as the arts and sciences, politics, religion, sport, and so on. Each volume contains twenty-six chapters; alphabetically arranged.

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