SKU: ST.EC12
Composed by Thomas Tallis. Edited by Leonard Ellinwood. Library Volumes. Edited by Leonard Ellinwood. First published in 1971. Pages: 144. Format: A4 spiral-bound. Choral Score. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #EC12. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.EC12). ISBN 9790220216510.
Tallis's choral works with English texts were all written for the worship of God in the reformed Church of England, setting either the liturgy of the new Book of Common Prayer of 1549, or Coverdale's vernacular bible. They testify to his position, undisputed even in his lifetime, as 'the father of English church music'. This volume contains ten of the 11 anthems that can definitely be attributed to the composer, and five contrafacta anthems with Latin texts, which were published in Tallis and Byrd's Cantiones Sacrae of 1575.
