In one work by this compo
In one work by this composer, the duration of each note in the cantus firmus is determined by the vowel on which it is sung. That piece is the Mass Puer natus est nobis, and another sacred work is the antiphon Gaude gloriosa Dei mater. Partsongs by this composer include Like as the Doleful Dove and O Ye Tender Babes. He set the first two lessons for Maundy Thursday in his two sets of Lamentations of Jeremiah, and the consort song Ye Sacred Muses is an elegy for him written by his countryman William Byrd. Another work, sometimes sung with the alternate English text "Sing and glorify," is his forty-part motet Spem in alium. FTP, identify this 16th-century English composer who provided the theme for a Fantasia by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
In one work by this composer, the duration of each note in the cantus firmus is determined by the vowel on which it is sung.
Thomas Tallis