Comments on: musical mondays -tallis, a return to form http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2008/06/30/musical-mondays-tallis-a-return-to-form/ The life and education of two growing beans - our 10th year of blogging Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:18:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.34 By: HHaricot http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2008/06/30/musical-mondays-tallis-a-return-to-form/#comment-5902 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:04:09 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2008/06/30/musical-mondays-tallis-a-return-to-form/#comment-5902 half man half biscuit certainly have an interesting line in lyrics.

]]> By: Chris http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2008/06/30/musical-mondays-tallis-a-return-to-form/#comment-5901 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:07:18 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2008/06/30/musical-mondays-tallis-a-return-to-form/#comment-5901 I got some Tallis as a Christmas present from my boss a couple of years ago. It’s in the car most of the time and I listen to it regularly. I first came across it on some Front Row piece about the Janet Cardiff installation:

http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/page.aspx?hid=286

Rather beautifully it takes us back to (as mentioned by Tim) Half Man Half Biscuit lyrics from ‘I went to a wedding’.

‘ And then inexplicably
For reasons unfathomable
But to me wholly admirable
The DJ played us some Tallis

He yanked off The Corrs in disgust and announced Thomas Tallis

Lamentations of Jeremiah

Across an empty dancefloor I walked to commend him
And also enquire if he had any Dowland’

]]> By: Michelle http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2008/06/30/musical-mondays-tallis-a-return-to-form/#comment-5900 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:05:52 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2008/06/30/musical-mondays-tallis-a-return-to-form/#comment-5900 Should I admit I misread spem in alium? Esp given recent tree pruning post?

]]> By: HHaricot http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2008/06/30/musical-mondays-tallis-a-return-to-form/#comment-5899 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:43:59 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2008/06/30/musical-mondays-tallis-a-return-to-form/#comment-5899 joanna – did you not watch the tudors [which i loved! - but tallis was in there] anyway, yes both of you, i think this music has a timeless yet wistful quality, and never fails to move me.

]]> By: Joanna http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2008/06/30/musical-mondays-tallis-a-return-to-form/#comment-5898 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:23:50 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2008/06/30/musical-mondays-tallis-a-return-to-form/#comment-5898 I’m beginning to love this stuff too. Got Allegri’s Miserere on CD as one of my Christmas presents last year. Never heard of Tallis before.

]]> By: Em http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2008/06/30/musical-mondays-tallis-a-return-to-form/#comment-5897 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:32:01 +0000 http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2008/06/30/musical-mondays-tallis-a-return-to-form/#comment-5897 We do really share a love for very similar music! I think with early music, the history within it, the echoes of an age gone by, of the millions of people in between that have listened to that very same music over hundreds of years, is what makes it truly special, and makes heart tugging music like the miserere that much more emotional.

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