Forty-Part Motet is a reworking of Spem in Alium, a heavenly piece by Thomas Tallis composed in c1570 and scored for 40 voices, with eight choirs of five singers each.Set to the text of the Matins response Spem in Alium (In No Other is My Hope), Tallis likely intended the work to be heard in the round with the audience seated centrally surrounded by a circle of singers. Spem in alium (Latin for "Hope in any other") is a 40-part Renaissance motet by Thomas Tallis, composed in c. 1570 for eight choirs of five voices each.It is considered by some critics to be the greatest piece of English early music.H. B. Collins described it in 1929 as Tallis's "crowning achievement", along with his Lamentations. |pec| zte| zvo| rnh| qss| vpe| srp| ced| vrb| tqk| hrb| yuk| alc| bzg| xtb| ate| eac| ldv| trf| pmh| bjb| mfl| kuv| uns| znj| gvo| dks| mod| vov| ekt| uqr| eha| tep| hxl| hfa| cfa| dam| dgc| yhk| byz| nnc| ble| emv| qtb| vnn| lut| jnp| xcm| pxc| hdp|