Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance

Orlando di Lasso
The Complete Motets 21
Motets for Three to Twelve Voices from Magnum Opus Musicum (Munich, 1604)
Edited by Peter Bergquist

R 148	ISBN 0-89579-596-5 (10-digit)	(December 2006)	xxxviii+360 pp.	$142.00
	ISBN 978-0-89579-596-0 (13-digit)

This volume contains the sixty-one motets transmitted only in Magnum Opus Musicum, the 1604 compilation by Lasso's sons of almost all of his motets. The contents range from brief canonic sketches and training pieces to Lasso's only motet for three choirs, "Domine, quid multiplicati sunt." The texts are mostly religious or moralizing, apart from several that celebrate political or religious personages and another group that were composed for use in a Jesuit drama. Thirteen six-voice motets that appear consecutively in modal order in Magnum Opus Musicum may have been left over from the Graz motet book of 1594, or alternately they may have been intended for another motet book that Lasso was unable to complete.

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Contents

Motets for Three Voices
1. Adoramus te Christe (1)
2. Verbum caro, panem verum (1)
3. Agimus tibi gratias (1)
4. In pace in idipsum
5. Ad te, perenne gaudium

Motets for Four Voices
6. Princeps Marte potens
7. Alleluia, laus et gloria
8. Regina caeli laetare (1)
9. Tota pulchra es
10. Verbum caro, panem verum (2)
11. Adoramus te Christe (2)
12. Agimus tibi gratias (2)
13. Ave mater matris Dei
14. Johannes est nomen ejus
15. Iste flos Alemannorum
16. Laudent Deum cithara
17. Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis (1)
18. Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis (2)
19. Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis (3)

Motets for Five Voices
20. Adoramus te Christe (3)
21. Ave Regina caelorum
22. Regina caeli laetare (2)
23. Regina caeli laetare (3)
24. Alma parens, dilecta Deo
25. Te merito, Daniel
26. Sic sua virtutum
27. Quod licet id libeat
28. Tibi progenies unica patris (1)

Motets for Six Voices
29. Accipe qua recrees
30. Ave Maria, gratia plena
31. O peccator, si filium Dei
32. Unus Dominus, una fides
33. Fratres, qui gloriatur
34. Peccavit David
35. Omnium deliciarum
36. Ne derelinquas amicum antiquum
37. Qui patiens est
38. Non des mulieri potestatem
39. Qui moderatur sermones suos
40. Gloriamur in tribulationibus
41. Timor Domini gloria
42. In hora ultima
43. Laudavi igitur laetitiam
44. Laudate Dominum omnes gentes
45. Voce mea ad Dominum clamavi
46. Tibi progenies unica patris (2)
47. Flemus extremos hominum labores
48. Tragico tecti syrmate

Motets for Seven Voices
49. Providebam Dominum
50. Ecce nunc benedicite Dominum
51. Heu quos dabimus

Motets for Eight Voices
52. Quid vulgo memorant?
53. Ergo rex vivat
54. Bone Jesu, verbum Patris
55. Tui sunt caeli, et tua est terra
56. Alma Redemptoris Mater
57. Laudabit usque ad mortem
58. Ecce quam bonum

Motets for Nine, Ten, and Twelve Voices
59. Inclina Domina aurem tuam
60. Aurora lucis rutilat
61. Domine, quid multiplicati sunt

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