Taverner, John

Taverner, John

▪ British composer
born c. 1490, South Lincolnshire, England
died October 15, 1545, Boston, Lincolnshire

      English composer known primarily for his sacred works. His music represents the culmination of early 16th-century English polyphony.

      In 1526 Taverner went to the University of Oxford to become master of the choir in the chapel of Cardinal College (later Christ Church). He left Oxford in 1530 to serve as a lay clerk in St. Boltoph choir in Boston, England, where he may have taken up the position of chorister instructor. However, by 1537 he had ended his association with the choir, at which time he may have retired from employment in church music altogether. The allegation that he served as a paid agent of Thomas Cromwell in Henry VIII's suppression of English monasteries cannot be verified.

      Taverner's church music (liturgical music), which is printed in Tudor Church Music, volumes 1 and 3 (1923–24), shows a variety, skill, range, and power that represent the climax of pre-Reformation English music. It includes 8 masses (mass) (e.g., The Western Wind), a few mass movements, 3 Magnificats (Magnificat), a Te Deum (Te Deum laudamus), and 28 motets (motet). Taverner's adaptation of the musical setting of the words In nomine Domini from the Benedictus of his mass Gloria tibi Trinitas became the prototype for a large number of instrumental compositions known as In nomines (In nomine), or Gloria tibi Trinitas.

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