Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance

Orlando di Lasso
The Complete Motets 4
Motets for Six Voices from Primus liber concentuum sacrorum (Paris, 1564)
Motets for Four to Ten Voices from Modulorum secundum volumen (Paris, 1565)
Edited by Peter Bergquist
 

R 105	ISBN 0-89579-335-0	(1996) xxiv+224 pp.	$78.00
	ISBN 978-0-89579-335-5 (13-digit)

The firm of Adrian Le Roy and Robert Ballard in Paris was by far the most prolific publisher of Lasso's music in his lifetime. From 1559 on they included his music in their chanson books, but their first publication devoted entirely to Lasso was the Primus liber concentuum sacrorum of 1564 for five and six voices, followed in 1565 by the Modulorum . . .4-10 vocum secundum volumen. Most of the 1564 book was reprinted from Lasso's 1556 and 1562 motet books, but it included three first editions, and 21 of the 25 motets in the 1565 book were new. With only a few exceptions, the texts of these motets are sacred, many from psalms or psalm verses, including "Laudate Dominum de caelis," the setting of Psalms 148 and 150 that also concludes Lasso's cycle of the Penitential Psalms. In "Laudate Dominum" and two other pieces in this volume, Lasso produced motets that are more than twice as long as any he had previously composed. These grand pieces contrast with intimate music such as the expressive setting of "Tristis est anima mea."

Contents
Surge, propera, amica mea
Quare tristis es, anima mea?
O mors, quam amara est memoria tua, Cognovi, Domine
Iniquos odio habui
Deus, in nomine tuo
Beatus vir qui timet Dominum
Laudate Dominum de caelis
Quis valet eloquio
Tristis est anima mea
Benedicite omnia opera Domini Domino
Deus noster refugium
Ut radios edit rutilo
Bonitatem fecisti
Beati omnes qui timent Dominum
Quis mihi, quis tete rapuit
Animam meam dilectam tradidi
Tu Domine benignus es
Pater noster, qui es in caelis
Jubilate Deo omnis terra
Beatus qui intelligit
In omnibus requiem quaesivi
In convertendo
Quo properas, facunde nepos Atlantis?