Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance

Lasso's Penitential Psalms, probably his most famous compositions, have not heretofore appeared in a critical edition based on both extant sources, the sumptuous manuscript (Mus. Ms. A) in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, and the 1584 partbooks published by Adam Berg in Munich. Lasso revised portions of the original version (probably composed ca. 1560) which the Psalms were published, and the present edition prints both versions separately when they differ significantly. It also includes the psalm "Laudate Dominum de caelis," which appears in both sources and which Lasso intended as an integral part of the cycle of Penitential Psalms.

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