Taverner, John / Tallis, Th.: 2 In nomine settings

for 4 instruments.

These two In nomine settings were originally conceived in four parts, but survive in some sources with an added fifth part between the tenor and bassus (printed separately in this edition). The Taverner version is actually the original In nomine. For many years twentieth-century musicologists were puzzled by why all the many English settings of this particular plainsong melody had the “In nomine” title, until Gustave Reese noticed that the “In nomine Domini” section of Taverner´s Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas was in fact the prototype for all the later settings. The practice of abstracting sections from masses for use as independent pieces was certainly not confined to England: there are many Italian and German anthologies complied around 1500 that include sections from masses by Josquin, Obrecht, Isaac, Brumel and others.
The added parts in these settings have attracted some criticism: Paul Doe, the editor of the Elizabethan Consort Music volumes of Musica Britannica, says of them “clearly a later addition by a different hand, and should not normally be performed”. Personally, I feel more positive about these parts, which seem competently written in an appropriate archaic style: that for Tallis´ piece is fairly cautious, but that for the Taverner setting is deliberately unorthodox in its dissonance treatment. There is of course no obstacle to performing these pieces in four parts.
The source used for this edition is British Library Add. MS 31390. For a complete list of sources for these pieces, see Musica Britannica XLIV. In this edition the original note values have been halved throughout. Editorial accidentals are shown in the usual way, that is applying to the one note only.

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