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The first volume of the series draws on the Forrest-Heyther partbooks, preserved in Oxford's Bodleian Library. They are the source of a 6-part Festal Mass by Richard Alwood, written to an unknown cant...

The second volume devoted to English liturgical organ music contains four pieces of the Ordinary of the Mass, one for the Proper, 23 offertories and one piece for the Communion.

Tallis's choral works with English texts were all written for the worship of God in the reformed Church of England, setting either the liturgy of the new Book of Common Prayer of 1549, or Coverdale's...

Though best known for his Dorian Service, Tallis also set the Preces and Responses, the Litany, and various psalms for service use, as well as providing the so-called 'tunes' for Archbishop Parker's P...