| Remarks: |
This motet may have begun life as a 2 voice instrumental
canon (or round) that grew through a process of revision
and expansion into a sonorous and majestic composition
for 5 voices.
It was published in its final form in the Cantiones, quæ ab argumento sacræ of 1575, the first printed collection of sacred polyphony in England and the joint effort of Tallis and his pupil, William Byrd. |
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