Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance

Orlando di Lasso
The Complete Motets 11
Liber mottetarum trium vocum (Munich, 1575)
Novae aliquot, ad duas voces cantiones (Munich, 1577)
Edited by Peter Bergquist
 

R 103	ISBN 0-89579-327-X	(1995) xx+119 pp.	$51.00
	ISBN 978-0-89579-327-0 (13-digit)

Among Lasso's best known and most widely circulated works are two sets of motets that were composed explicitly for recreational and didactic purposes. Adam Berg published the Liber motettarum trium vocum in 1575, and then he added three more trios to the original fifteen in a 1577 reissue. The Novae aliquot, ad duas voces cantiones, which appeared in 1577, contains twelve texted and twelve textless duos; the latter may be the only instrumental music that Lasso ever wrote, though vocal performance is also possible. The mainly religious texts in both books were presumably chosen largely to provide edification along with recreation or instruction. The three-voice motets might also be used as service music.

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Haec quae ter triplici
Domine, non est exaltatum cor meum
Ego sum resurrectio et vita
Laetatus sum
Deus, tu scis insipientiam meam
Ego sum pauper et dolens
Exaudi me, Domine
Exaudi, Deus, orationem meam
Sancta et immaculata virginitas
Canatate Domino canticum novum
Christus resurgens ex mortuis
Ego dixi: Domine, miserere mei
O Maria, clausus hortus
Beati omnes qui timent Dominum
Ave Regina caelorum
Domine Deus meus, in te speravi
Justus es Domine; Diligam te, Domine

Beatus vir qui in sapienta morabitur
Beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Oculus non vidit
Justus cor suum tradet
Expectatio justorum laetitia
Qui sequitur me
Justi tulerunt spolia impiorum
Sancti mei
Qui vult venire post me
Serve bone et fidelis
Fulgebunt justi sicut lilium
Sicut rosa inter spinas
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