Theme by Thomas Tallis (string quartet)

Title: Theme by Thomas Tallis, Psalm 2  from Nine Psalm Tunes for Archbishop Parker’s Psalter (1567)

Composer: Thomas Tallis,  arr. David Gable

Instrumentation: Violin 1; Violin 2; Viola; Cello

Printout: 4 pages

Note: This is the theme used by Vaughan Williams in his famous Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.

You will also be interested in our quartet arrangement of Tallis’ famous Canon.