John Taverner

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John Taverner : biography

c. 1490 – 1545

Works list

Masses

  1. Missa Gloria Tibi Trinitas (6 voices)
  2. Missa Corona Spinea (6 voices)
  3. Missa O Michael (6 voices)
  4. Missa Sancti Wilhelmi (5 voices), sometimes called Small Devotion (possibly a corruption of inscription "S Will Devotio" found in two sources)
  5. Missa Mater Christi (5 voices)
  6. The Mean Mass (5 voices)
  7. The Plainsong Mass (4 voices)
  8. The Western Wynde Mass (4 voices)

Mass fragments

  1. Christeleison (3 voices)
  2. Kyrie Le Roy (4 voices)

Votive antiphons

  1. Ave Dei Patris filia (5 voices)
  2. Gaude plurimum (5 voices)
  3. O splendor gloriae (5 voices)
  4. O Wilhelme, pastor bone (in honour of Cardinal Wolsey)

Office music

  1. Alleluya. Veni electa (4 voices)
  2. Alleluya (4 voices)
  3. Te Deum (5 voices)

Motets

  1. Audivi vocem de caelo (4 voices)
  2. Ave Maria (5 voices)
  3. Dum transisset sabbatum (I) (5 voices, also a 4 voice edition)
  4. Dum transisset sabbatum (II) (4 voices)
  5. Ecce carissimi
  6. Ex ejus tumba – Sospitati dedit aegro
  7. Fac nobis secundum hoc nomen (5 voices)
  8. Fecundata sine viro (3 voices)
  9. Hodie nobis caelorum rex
  10. In pace in idipsum (4 voices)
  11. Jesu spes poenitentibus (3 voices)
  12. Magnificat (4 voices)
  13. Magnificat (5 voices)
  14. Magnificat (6 voices)
  15. Mater Christi (5 voices)
  16. O Christe Jesu pastor bone (5 voices)
  17. Prudens virgo (3 voices)
  18. Sancte deus (5 voices)
  19. Sub tuum presidium (5 voices)
  20. Tam peccatum (3 voices)
  21. Traditur militibus (3 voices)
  22. Virgo pura (3 voices)

Other

  1. In trouble and adversity (SATB, a contrafactum on his four-part instrumental consort piece In Nomine, published by John Daye in Mornyng and Evenyng Prayer in 1565).

Secular works

  1. In women (2 voices)
  2. Quemadmodum (6 voices or recorders)