Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: The Mellotron Group

One of my favourite pieces is Spem In Alium by 15th century composer, Thomas Tallis.  I have listened to it a million times and it still hijacks me completely.  For those who don't know, this is a setting for 5 choirs of 8 voices singing latin religiousness.  The lyrics don't matter a jot to me, the effect of these massed voices in groups of 8, repeating against each other and the natural dissonance that occurs is spellbinding.  It is an orchestra of voices and the words are a vehicle for them to ring out. 

 

Mike loves this choral work as well.  His point is that the m a j o r i t y of rock singers and rock lyrics are detrimental to the music.  I have to agree.  There are obviously exceptions.

 

M