Thomas Tallis: Chronology, Contexts, Discoveries
A Study Day
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
16 November 2015
Provisional Schedule
10-10:30am
Registration
10:30-10:45
Welcome / Introduction
10:45-11:30
From the Archives: Thomas Tallis at Dover Priory
Roger Bowers
11:30-12.15
Variations on a psalm by Thomas Tallis
John Milsom
12:15-1:00
New evidence of Tallis’s Elizabethan anthem style
Kerry McCarthy
1:00-1:45
Lunch Break (local cafes available)
1:45-2:30
The Five-Part English Litany of 1544: Seventeenth-Century Traces
of “the Notes Sung in the King’s Majesty’s Chapel”
Andrew Johnstone
2:30-3:30
Praying for a safe delivery: Queen Mary, Thomas Tallis and
the Chronology of mid-Tudor Music
Magnus Williamson
3:30-4:00
Tea break (local cafes available)
4:00-5:00
‘Deliuer me from my deceytful ennemies': A Tallis Contrafactum in
Time of War
David Skinner
5:30-6:15
Performance by Alamire in Jesus College Chapel