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Tallis is dead and music dies .
So wrote William Byrd, Tallis's most distinguished pupil, capturing the esteem and veneration in which Tallis was held by his fellow composers and musical colleagues in the 16th century and, indeed, by the four monarchs he served at the Chapel Royal. It is surprising that hitherto so little of Tallis's music has been regularly performed and that so much is not satisfactorily published. Great attention is being paid to performance detail including pitch, pronunciation and the music's liturgical context. As a result new editions of the music are required for the recordings, many of which will in time be published by the Cantiones Press. A disc of music commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of Philip II of Spain in 1598.