Tallis, Thomas, “the father of English cathedral music,” born in the reign of Henry VIII., lived well into the reign of Elizabeth; was an organist, and probably “a gentleman of the Chapel Royal”; composed various anthems, hymns, Te Deums, etc., including “The Song of the Forty Parts” (c. 1515-1585).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Tallien, Jean Lambert * Tally