A General History of the Science and Practice of Music; In Five Volumes Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1776 edition. Excerpt: ...om the ecclesiastical tones which shew him to. hare been deeply ikilled in church-music. Tallifc Tallis died the twenty-third day of November 1585, and was buried in the parish church of Greenwich in Kent. Strype, in his Continuation of Stow's Survey4 published in 1720, says that in his circuitwalk round London he sound in the chancel of that church, upon a stone before the rails, a brass plate thus inscribed in old letters: Cittern Ijere botfj p a toortfm topgfct. Wfyo for long fume in munch bore the bell: tyig name to ujeto, toatf fjoma$f CaHpjsf ftpgfjt, 3fn ftoncst ucrtuou$f IptT r)e bpb ejetell. l e sem'b long tpme in crjappel toittj grete prapfe, jfotDcr soucrepgncg repgnejef (a tfjing not often seene) % mean ftpng enrp niuprpncc dbtoarb'0 bapeg, (c)ueuc 3t?arp, anb li3abctfi our queue. %t marpeb toaitf, ttjougrj eftilbren tje fiab none, 5tnb Ipu'b in loue ful ttjre anb tfiirtp pereg 3(c)pttj lopal spotosc, toljog name pclppt toajf ont, Wtyo &ere entomu'b, fjiui eompanp nofco bear . %$ fie bpb Ipue, so also bib tje Up, 3Ju mplb anb qupet sort, 0 fjappp man Co 5ob ful oft for merep bib tje crp, Htjerefore Jje lpuc, let bets) bo tojjat fje can. The stone on which this inscription was engraven was repaired by Dean Aldrich. The following motet of Tallis is the second in order of the Cantiones Sacrae published by him and Bird in 1575. The Miserere that here follows it, is the last composition in the same collection. There was also In the old church of Greenwich an inscription on brass in memory of Richard Bowyer, gentleman of the chapel and master of the children under king Henry VIII. Edward VI. queen Mary, and queen Elizabeth. He died 26 July, 1561, and was succeeded by Richard Edwards fr