masses and motets of Byrd and Tallis, interesting pieces both musically and politically, both were writing in Tudor england, at a time when there was much religious strife, in fact the mass in 4 voices of tallis was written during the reign of Elizabeth, when the celebration of the mass was outlawed, on a cd i got several years ago thru the BBC music mag. have woken up but kinda in afoul mood................in other words everything is back to normal