Talk:Euge caeli porta (Thomas Tallis)

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I can't help feeling that it might sound better if the bass part were pitched an octave higher, so that it was mostly above the tenor, serving as another alto part. It would be interesting to compare the score with another source or with an authoritative recording, but I don't have one. (Paul Marchesano 2004)

Addition by DF, 6.1.2014 - Paul M is right in that his version with T & B "interchanged" is actually the correct one (at least according to TCM; I don't have access to the original Gyffard Partbooks), suggesting that his original source was defective.

Gyffard Partbooks; but I couldn't find this work in Wikipedia's index. — Barry Johnston (talk) 18:24, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

The source is listed in Tudor Church Music as "Tenbury MSS. 354-8. f. 12v." which a cursory search did not find. It appears the confusion has originated with the TCM version's method of designating a clef as 8vb being difficult to discern, leading to the assumption that *both* tenor and bass should be 8vb and to oddities. J. Kilby (talk) 03:56, 4 January 2025 (UTC)