Thomas Tallis Third Mode Melody

I ve loved the music of Thomas Tallis (15051585), since singing Spem in Allium as a soprano chorister when I was nine years old . This Renaissance masterpiece is in the Phrygian mode and was one of nine that he wrote for the Psalter of 1567 for the Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker. Tallis s original words were: Why fum th in fight the Gentiles spite, in fury raging stout Why tak th in hand the people fond, vain things to bring about The Kings arise, the Lords devise, in counsels met thereto, agai