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Tallis' Canon Variations
Thomas Tallis (arr. John C. Worley)
General Info
Year: 1561 / 1992
Duration:
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Choir
Publisher: Dorn Publications
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $16.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Tallis Canon is one of nine tunes Thomas Tallis contributed to Matthew Parker's Psalter (around 1561). There it was used as a setting for Psalm 67. In the original tune the melody began in the tenor, followed by the soprano, and featured repeated phrases. Thomas Ravenscroft published the tune, with the repeat phrases omitted, in his Whole Book of Psalmes (1621). The Ravenscroft version is the setting that virtually all modern hymnals use for this text.
Tallis Canon is a round most congregations can easily sing in two parts.
- Program Note from Hymnary.org
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Bowling Green (Ohio) State University Wind Symphony (Bruce Moss, conductor) - 16 April 2021
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Three Tallis Melodies (Adaptable Band) (arr. Danyew) (2020)
All Wind Works
- Cathedral Music (trans. Singleton) (1548/1590/2003)
- Chorale and Canon (arr. Kinyon) (1968)
- If Ye Love Me
- Spem in alium nunquam habui
- Tallis' Canon (arr. Sparke) (c. 1561/2012)
- Tallis' Canon Variations (arr. Worley) (1561/1994)
- A Tallis Prelude (arr. Akey) (1989)
- Tallis Theme (arr. Gorham) (2006)
- Three Tallis Melodies (Adaptable Band) (arr. Danyew) (2020)
Resources
- "Tallis' Canon." Hymnary,org. Web. Accessed 16 April 2021
- Tallis, T.; Worley, J. (1994). Tallis' Canon Variations: (1561) [score]. Dorn Publications: Medfield, Mass.