To the Most High, Mightie, and Magnificient Empresse, Renowned for Pietie, Vertve, and All Graciovs Government: Queen Elizabeth I, By the Grace of God Queene of England, Northern Ireland, and Wales, defender of the faith, etc., and to the People of England. And to the Artiste Glenda Jackson, who resurrected Elizabeth R and brought her spirit to the modern age from across the great divide. Their most humble servant Stephen Whitehead, doth in all humiltie, dedicate, present, and consecrate these his labours, to live with the Eternity of their Fame. "Homage to Gloriana: An Elizabethan Tone Poem" is a 21st-century homage to music of the English Renaissance of the late 16th century dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603). The first theme, introduced by the woodwinds then played by strings and briefly intoned by the brass, is a song once beloved of Anne Boleyn (1501-1536), the martyred mother of Elizabeth I. The next section on harpsichord solo then with tutti orchestra is from "The Queen’s Alman" by William Byrd (1540-1623), and the chorus enters on music from Byrd’s Mass for 5 voices with text by Sir Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) from The Faerie Queene (1590), paraphrased. The piece ends with a popular song from the time, “The Leaves Be Green”. Texts for Homage to Gloriana: Great Gloriana, greatest Majesty, As we hath sung of her wondrous days And at the abbey ancient we place her praise That when her glory shall be fair displayed To future age of her this mention shall be made. Gloriana. (Paraphrased from Spenser’s the Faerie Queene, Book VI) The leaves be green, the nuts be brown, They hang so high, they will not come down. The fairest flower in the garden green, Is in my love’s breast all comely seen, The greatest majesty, Gloriana.