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This work is a fresh take on a beloved text from 1 Corinthians 13, often used at weddings. Though the work is itself new and of its own era, it is historically inspired. The present work is subtitled Hommage à Thomas Tallis and, it is strongly inspired by this great Tudor composer. Contained herein is a stylistic fusion of the style of the English Renaissance with a rather more contemporary harmonic language. 
 
Numerous direct quotations and evocations of Tallis’ works can be heard throughout the work, and the Tudor composer’s style is evoked in an alternation between homophonic and polyphonic textures as well as through the distinctive and characteristic “English Cadence,” used here for expressive effect to depict such things as the a “clanging cymbal.”
 
Text
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous of boastful; it is not arrogant or rude, it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoice in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, endures all things. Faith, hope, and love abide, these three, but the greatest of these is love.
 
Scripture quotations from I Corinthians 13:1-2, 4-5a, 7, 13 are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible—Second Catholic Edition (Ignatius Edition), copyright © 2006 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.