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John Taverner’s career appears to have had three major phases: lay-clerk at the collegiate church of Tattershall in Lincolnshire until early 1526; director of music at Thomas Wolsey’s newly founded Cardinal College at Oxford for four years from March 1526; thereafter director of music at the parish church of St Botolph in Boston, Lincolnshire, at first with a very large and well-funded choir of men and boys, and from about 1537/8 with a much smaller male-voice ensemble. The scoring of this four-part setting for two tenors, baritone and bass, the use of a Magnificat tone rather than a faburden as cantus firmus, the emphasis upon imitative writing and the resourceful exploitation of dissonance, suggest that it may be one of his late works, perhaps written in semi-retirement for the reduced choir that survived at St Botolph’s until 1548. For four voices: TTBarB. vi + 14 pages. 2026. ISMN 979-0-57039-227-8.
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