“The DJ played us some Tallis – He yanked off The Corrs in disgust and announced Thomas Tallis”
So… what do we know about Thomas Tallis?
The A to Z of HMHB
The A to Z of HMHB
“The DJ played us some Tallis – He yanked off The Corrs in disgust and announced Thomas Tallis”
So… what do we know about Thomas Tallis?
this leaden paul
His surname derives from the French ‘taillis, meaning ‘thicket’. Portrayed in The Tudors by erstwhile drummer (q.v.) “Joe van Moyland”, AKA Joe Lean, AKA Robin of Loxley (q.v.); like Lean, Tallis did not contribute any material to the new Sugababes (q.v.) release.
20 February 2017
dr desperate
Had a monopoly on polyglottal polyphony. (We used to have one of them at home, but the wheel fell off).
20 February 2017
jODRELL BANKSY
Father of the original Brit-pop movement, and an influence on the young zoological coterie (The Byrd, The Bull, The Gibbons) that rose after him. His influence extended into the later prog sounds of Purcell, but subsequently his stock declined until it was unexpectedly revived by the Vaughan-Williams Overdrive in the new-wave era.
20 February 2017
dirk hofman
Sting played us some Tallis during his flirt with lute ..
22 February 2017
CHARLES EXFORD
When I think of Tallis I think of Vaughan Williams and I’ve started to think the latter could have his own entry in the A-Z, as he seems to the hub around which so many of Mr. B’s cultural reference points could be seen to revolve: Thomas Tallis, Kathleen Ferrier, the folk songs of Sussex (as collected by RVW and featured in CD inlays, sung by the Coppers and parodied in some HMHB classics), A Shropshire Lad, Lark Descending/Ascending, Job, The Slough of Despond, The Bacchae, the English Hymnal, the Antarctic, and countless Thomas Hardy references.
22 February 2017
dickhead in quicksand
I ain’t got a Job
I should have just got a Job on the bins
If God had meant for us to work, then I’m sure he would have given us Jobs
23 February 2017
dickhead in quicksand
Him and his byrd had a corner (I don’t know why I cheer for them) on printed music under Liz I.
By some accounts, the 40-part motet was an answer song to a lesser-known piece by the dago Alessandro Striggio (“Coram te peragit rigidam ambulantiam”).
23 February 2017
Cream cheese and chives
Tallis is referenced in A Month In The Country by JL Carr. The shell shocked WW1 survivor working on uncovering the mural in the village church listens to him. Nowadays he would probably choose the Corrs
1 November 2017
MULDOON LIVES!
Just been a pointless answer on Pointless, HMHB expands the mind.
14 August 2023