Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance

Orlando di Lasso
The Complete Motets 19: Motets from Printed Anthologies and Manuscripts, 1580-1594
Edited by Peter Bergquist

R 130	ISBN 0-89579-495-0	(2002) xxxi + 265 pp.	$ 110.00
	ISBN 978-0-89579-495-6 (13-digit)

The forty-three motets in this volume are the counterparts of those in CM 17 and CM 18 for the period 1580-1594. The few texts that are not explicitly religious are moralizing. This is undoubtedly owing to the Counter-Reformation fervor that pervaded the court of Wilhelm V, who succeeded to the Bavarian dukedom on his father's death in 1579. The piety of the court as well as the Tridentine liturgical reforms that began during these years account for the ten Marian antiphons included in this volume. The last of these, a seven-voice "Regina caeli laetare," is one of Lasso's very last compositions. The composer's inspiration and technique are unflagging in these products of his later years. They range in size from single-page training pieces for choir boys to extended supplications addressed to Jesus or Mary. This volume includes Lasso's only known motet in falsobordone style (a setting of the "Salve Regina") and two motets ascribed to Lasso but previously unknown. Though the ascription may be questionable, they are included here to facilitate further study.

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Contents:
1. Ave Regina caelorum (1)
2. Ave Maria, gratia plena 
3. Illumina oculos meos
4. Ave Regina caelorum (2)
5. Salve Regina, mater misericordiae (1)
6. Alma Redemptoris Mater
7. Osculetur me osculo
8. O bone Jesu
9. Scapulis suis obumbrabit tibi
10. Exaltabo te, Domine
11. Levabo oculos meos
12. Domine, vivifica me
13. In te speravi, Domine
14. Qui tribulant me
15. Meditabor in mandatis tuis
16. Immittet Angelus Domini
17. Diliges proximum tuum
18. Quid facies facies
19. Dilige solitudinem
20. Veni, Domine, et noli tardare
21. Confirma hoc, Deus
22. Salve Regina, mater misericordiae (2)
23. Dixi ergo in corde meo
24. Mors tua, mors Christi
25. Domine Deus fortissime
26. Sancta Maria, omnes Sancti Dei
27. Quocumque loco fuero
28. Domine Jesu Christe, pastor bone
29. Salve Regina, mater misericordiae (3)
30. Salve Regina misericordiae (1)
31. Salve Regina misericordiae (2)
32. Adoramus te Christe (1)
33. Adoramus te Christe (2)
34. Adoramus te Christe (3)
35. Tibi laus, tibi gloria
36. Venite, filii, audite me
37. Retribuet tibi Dominus
38. Tu es pastor ovium
39. Benedic, Domine, domum istam
40. Da pacem, Domine
41. Omnes de Saba venient
42. Regina caeli laetare (1)
43. Regina caeli laetare (2)