Category: Tallis, Thomas (1505-1585)

Luke 14: 16-17 [Latin] – Jesus said, A certain man prepared a great feast, and he sent his servant at the time of the feast to tell the guests to come, for all things were prepared.

Come, eat my bread, and drink the wine which I have mixed for you, for all things were prepared. [Glory be to the Father…]

Original Latin:

Homo quidam fecit coenam magnam et vocavit multos et misit servum suum hora coenae dicere invitatis ut venirent, quia omnia parata sunt. Alleluja.

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“Homo quidam fecit coenam,” sacred motet by Thomas Tallis (1505-1585), first published in The Baldwin Partbooks (1575).

Performed by Taverner Choir

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John 15:12-13 

¹² This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

¹³ Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

This is my commandment, composed by Thomas Tallis (1505-1585) or William Mundy (1529-1591)

Sung by The Church of Bethesda-By-The Sea, Palm Beach, Florida

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Isaiah 55:7 [Written and sung in Latin]

⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Derelinquit impius, no. 13, from Cantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur (1575) – by Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)

Performed by Alamire

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Mark 13:35-37 [Latin]

³⁵ Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock crowing, or in the morning:

³⁶ Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

³⁷ And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

Vigilate (from Cantiones sacrae I, 1589) composed by William Byrd (1540-1623)

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