Orlandus Lassus

1532–1594

A composer, born at Mons, Hainault, Belgium, in 1520 (according to most biographers; but his epitaph gives 1532); died at Munich, 14 June, 1594. At the age of eight and a half years he was admitted as soprano to the choir of the church of St. Nicholas in his native city. He soon attracted general attention, both on account of his unusal musical talent and his beautiful voice; so much so that he was three times abducted. Twice his parents had him returned to the parental roof, but the third time they consented to allow him to take up his abode at St-Didier, the temporary residence of Ferdinand de Gonzaga, general in command of the army of Charles V and Viceroy of Sicily. At the end of the campaign in the Netherlands, Orlandus followed his patron to Milan and from there to Sicily. After the change of his voice Orlandus spent about three years at the court of the Marquess della Terza, at Naples. He next went to Rome, where he enjoyed the favour and hospitality, for about six months, of Cardinal Archbishop of Florence, who was then living there. Through the influence of this prince of the church, Orlandus obtained the position of choirmaster at St. John Lateran, in spite of his extreme youth and the fact that there were many capable musicians available. During his residence in Rome, Lassus completed his first volume of Masses for four voices, and a collection of motets for five voices, all of which he had published in Venice. After a sojourn of probably two years in Rome, Lassus, learning of the serious illness of his parents, hastened back to Belgium only to find that they had died. His native city Mons not offering him a suitable field of activity, he spent several years in travel through France and England and then settled at Antwerp for about two years. It was while here that Orlandus received an invitation from Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, not only to become the director of his court chapel, but also to recruit capable musicians for it in the Netherlands. While in the employment and under the protection of this art-loving prince, Lassus developed that phenomenal productivity as a composer which is unsurpassed in the history of music. For thirty-four years he remained active at Munich as composer and director, first under Albert V, and then under his son and successor, William V. During all this time he enjoyed not only the continued and sympathetic favour of his patrons and employers, but was also honoured by Pope Gregory XIII, who appointed him Knight of the Golden Spur; by Charles IX of France, who bestowed upon him the cross of the Order of Malta; and by Emperor Maximilian, who on 7 December, 1570, raised Lassus and his descendants to the nobility. The imperial document conferring the honour is remarkable, not only as showing the esteem in which the master was held by rulers and nations, but particularly as evidence of the lofty conception on the part of this monarch of the function of art in the social economy. Lassus's great and long-continued activity finally told on his mind and caused a depression and break-down, from which he at first rallied but never fully recovered.

Lassus was the heir to the centuries of preparation and development of the Netherland school, and was its greatest and also its last representative.

While with many of his contemporaries, even the most noted, such as Dufay, Okeghem, Obrecht, and Josquin des Prés, contrapuntal skill is often an end in itself, Lassus, being consummate master of every form of the art and possessing a powerful imagination, always aims at a lofty and truthful interpretation of the text before him. His genius is of a universal nature. His wide culture and the extensive travels of his youth had enabled him to absorb the distinguishing musical traits of every nationality. None of his contemporaries had such a well -defined judgment in the choice of the means of expression which best served his purpose. The lyric, epic, and dramatic elements are alternately in evidence in his work. But he would undoubtedly have been greatest in the dramatic style, had he lived at a later period. Although Lassus lived at the time of the Reformation, when the individual and secular spirit manifested itself more and more in music, and although he interpreted secular poems such as madrigals, chansons, and German lieder, the contents of which were sometimes rather free (as was not infrequently the case in those times), his distinction lies overwhelmingly in his works for the Church.

The diatonic Gregorian modes form the basis of his compositions, and most frequently his themes are taken from liturgical melodies. The number of works the master has left to posterity exceeds two thousand, in every possible form, and in combinations of from two to twelve voices. Many of them remain in manuscript, but the great majority have been printed at Venice, Munich, Nuremberg, Louvain, Antwerp, or Paris. Among his more famous works must be mentioned his setting of the seven penitential psalms, which for variety, depth, truth of expression, and elevation of conception are unsurpassed. Duke Albert showed his admiration for this work by having it written on parchment and bound in two folio volumes, which the noted painter Hans Mielich illustrated, at the command of the duke, in a most beautiful manner. These, with two other smaller volumes containing an analysis of Lassus's and Mielich's work by Samuel van Quickelberg, a contemporary, are preserved in the court library at Munich. Lassus left no fewer than fifty Masses of his composition. Some of these are built upon secular melodies, as was customary in his time, but the thematic material for most of them has been taken from the liturgical chant. In 1604, his two sons, Rudolph and Ferdinand, also musicians of note, published a collection of 516 motets, under the title of "Magnum opus musicum", which was followed in 1609 by "Jubilus B. Mariae Virginis", consisting of 100 settings of the Magnificat. The publication of a critical edition of Lassus's complete works in sixty volumes, prepared by Dr. Haberl and A. Sandberger, was begun 1894.

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Author:        Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594.
Uniform Title: Works. 1956
Title:         Sčamtliche Werke / Orlando di Lasso ; [Editionsleitung,
                  Musikhistorische Kommission der Bayerischen Akademie der
                  Wissenschaften].
Edition:       Neue Reihe.
Published:     Kassel : Bčarenreiter, 1956-<1995   >
Description:   1 score (v. <1-8, 10-26   >) : facsims. ; 28 cm.
LC Call No.:   M3 .L36
Notes:         Includes bibliographical references and index.
               Bd. 1. Lateinische Motetten, franzčosische Chansons und
                  italienische Madrigale aus wiederaufgefundenen Drucken
                  1559-1588 -- Bd. 2. Die vier Passionen -- Bd. 3. Messen 1-9
                  -- Bd. 4. Messen 10-17 -- Bd. 5. Messen 18-23 -- Bd. 6.
                  Messen 24-29 -- Bd. 7. Messen 30-35 -- Bd. 8. Messen 36-41   
                  -- Bd. 10. Messen 49-55 -- Bd. 11. Messen 56-63 -- Bd. 12.
                  Messen 64-70 -- Bd. 13. Magnificat 1-24 -- Bd. 14. Magnificat
                  25-49 -- Bd. 15. Magnificat 50-70 -- Bd. 16. Magnificat 71-92
                  -- Bd. 17. Magnificat 93-110 -- Bd. 18. Das Hymnarium -- Bd.
                  19. Lectiones -- Bd. 20. Lagrime di san Pietro -- Bd. 21.
                  Prophetiae Sibyllarum -- Bd. 22. Lamentationes Jeremiae
                  prophetae -- Bd. 23. Offizien und Messproprien -- Bd. 24.
                  Cantica, Responsorien und andere Musik fčur die Officia --
                  Bd. 25. Litaneien, Falsibordoni und Offiziumssčatze -- Bd.
                  26. Die sieben Busspsalmen mit der Motette Laudes Domini.
               Publisher's no.: Bčarenreiter-Ausgabe 3401/.
Subjects:      Music.
Other authors: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Musikhistorische
                  Kommission.
Control No.:   62045726 /M/r87

Author:        Schčutz, Lieselotte, 1934-
Title:         Hans Mielichs Illustrationen zu den Busspsalmen des Orlando di
                  Lasso.
Published:     Mčunchen, 1966.
Description:   147 p. 21 cm.
LC Call No.:   ND3154.M8 S3
Notes:         Inaug.-Diss.--Munich.
               Vita
               Bibliography: p. 138-143.
Subjects:      Mčuelich, Hans, 1516-1573.
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales --
                  Illustrations.
Control No.:   70283867 //r84

Author:        Sharp, Geoffrey B.
Title:         Lassus & Palestrina, [by] Geoffrey B. Sharp.
Published:     Sevenoaks; London, Novello, 1972.
Description:   20 p. 19 cm.
Series:        Novello short biographies
LC Call No.:   ML390.S525 L4
Dewey No.:     784/.092/4 B
ISBN:          0853600384
Subjects:      Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594.
               Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da, 1525?-1594.
Control No.:   73150884 /MN/r84

Author:        Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594.
Uniform Title: Works. 1968
Title:         Sčamtliche Werke / Orlando di Lasso.
Edition:       2., nach den Quellen revidierte Aufl. der Ausg. von F.X. Haberl
                  und A. Sandberger / Editionsleitung, Musikhistorische
                  Kommission der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Published:     Wiesbaden : Breitkopf & Hčartel, <1968-1990   >
Description:   1 score (v. <2, 4, 6, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20   >) : facsims. ; 34
                  cm.
LC Call No.:   M3 .L34 1968
Notes:         At head of title: Acadâemie royale de Belgique. Bayerische
                  Akademie der Wissenschaften.
               Includes indexes.
                   -- Bd. 2. Kompositionen mit italienischem Text. I. Das
                  erste und zweite Buch fčunfstimmiger Madrigale, Venedig 1555
                  und Rom 1557    -- Bd. 4. Kompositionen mit italienischem
                  Text. II. Das dritte und vierte Buch fčunfstimmiger
                  Madrigale, Rom 1563 und Venedig 1567    -- Bd. 6.
                  Kompositionen mit italienischem Text. III. Die beiden
                  Madrigaldrucke, Nčurnberg 1585 und 1587    -- Bd. 12.
                  Kompositionen mit franzčosischem Text. I. Die vierstimmigen
                  Chansons aus "Les meslanges d'Orlande de Lassus," Paris 1576 
                    -- Bd. 14. Kompositionen mit franzčosischem Text. II. Die
                  fčunf- und achtstimmigen Chansons aus Les meslanges d'Orlande
                  de Lassus, Paris 1576    -- Bd. 16. Kompositionen mit
                  franzčosischem Text. III. Drei- bis achtstimmige Chansons aus
                  verschiedenen Drucken    -- Bd. 18. Kompositionen mit
                  deutschem Text. I. Die drei Teile fčunfstimmiger deutscher
                  Lieder, Mčunchen 1567, 1572 und 1576    -- Bd. 20.
                  Kompositionen mit deutschem Text. II. Drei- bis achtstimmige
                  deutsche Lieder aus verschiedenen Drucken sowie aus
                  handschriftlicher čUberlieferung.
               Pl. no.: O. L. 
Subjects:      Madrigals, Italian.
               Polyphonic chansons.
               Part-songs, German.
Other authors: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Musikhistorische
                  Kommission.
               Acadâemie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de
                  Belgique.
               Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Control No.:   74298226 /M/r934

Author:        Leuchtmann, Horst.
Title:         Orlando di Lasso / Horst Leuchtmann.
Published:     Wiesbaden : Breitkopf und Hčartel, 1976-1977.
Description:   2 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
LC Call No.:   ML410.L3 L53
Dewey No.:     784/.092/4 B
ISBN:          3765101184 (v. 1) : DM140.00 (v. 1)
Notes:         Bibliography: v. 1, p. 3-10.
               Includes index.
               1. Sein Leben.--2. Briefe.
Subjects:      Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594.
               Composers -- Netherlands -- Biography.
               Composers -- Netherlands -- Correspondence.
Control No.:   77481545 /MN/r842

Author:        Gross, Horst-Willi.
Title:         Klangliche Struktur und Klangverhčaltnis in Messen und
                  lateinischen Motetten Orlando di Lassos / Horst-Willi Gross.
Published:     Tutzing : Schneider, 1977.
Description:   vii, 169 p. : music ; 24 cm.
Series:        Frankfurter Beitrčage zur Musikwissenschaft ; Bd. 7
LC Call No.:   ML410.L3 G76
Dewey No.:     783.2/2/0924
ISBN:          379520223X : DM70.00
Notes:         Bibliography: p. 167-169.
Subjects:      Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Masses.
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Motets.
               Mass (Music)
               Motet.
Control No.:   78369289 /MN/r852

Author:        Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594.
Uniform Title: Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales
Title:         Seven penitential psalms with two laudate psalms : an edition
                  of Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Mus. MS. A, I and II /
                  Orlando di Lasso ; edited by Charlotte Smith.
Published:     Newark : University of Delaware Press, c1983.
Description:   1 score (291 p.) ; 29 cm.
LC Call No.:   M2082.L34 P7 1983
ISBN:          087413238X
Notes:         For solo voices or chorus (SATTB); vocal parts may be doubled
                  by instruments.
               Latin words.
               Bibliography: p. 11.
Subjects:      Motets.
               Penitential Psalms (Music)
               Psalms (Music) -- 148th Psalm.
               Psalms (Music) -- 150th Psalm.
Other authors: Smith, Charlotte, 1921-
Other titles:  7 penitential Psalms with two laudate Psalms.
               Penitential Psalms with two laudate Psalms.
Control No.:   82049091 /M/r902

Author:        Roche, Jerome.
Title:         Lassus / Jerome Roche.
Published:     London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1982.
Description:   58 p. : music ; 22 cm.
Series:        Oxford studies of composers ; 19
LC Call No.:   ML410.L3 R6 1982
Dewey No.:     784/.092/4 19
ISBN:          0193152371 (pbk.) : ą4.95
Notes:         Bibliography: p. 58.
Subjects:      Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Vocal music.
               Vocal music -- History and criticism.
Control No.:   82185078 /MN/r85



Title:         Orlando di Lasso : Musik der Renaissance am Mčunchner
                  Fčurstenhof : Ausstellung zum 450. Geburtstag, 27. Mai-31.
                  Juli 1982 / Bayerische Staatsbibliothek ; [Ausstellung und
                  Katalog, Helmut Hell und Horst Leuchtmann].
Published:     Wiesbaden : Reichert, c1982.
Description:   269 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Series:        Ausstellungskataloge / Bayerische Staatsbibliothek ; 26
LC Call No.:   ML141.M8 L36 1982
Dewey No.:     784/.092/4 19
ISBN:          3882261315
Notes:         Discography: p. 88-115.
               Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Subjects:      Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594 -- Exhibitions.
               Composers -- Germany -- Biography.
               Music -- Germany -- Munich -- Exhibitions.
               Music -- History and criticism -- 16th century -- Exhibitions.
Other authors: Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594.
               Hell, Helmut.
               Leuchtmann, Horst.
Other authors: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.
Series Entry:  Ausstellungskataloge (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) ; 26.
Control No.:   82201296 /MN/r943

Author:        Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594.
Uniform Title: Chansons, voices (4). Selections
Title:         Meslanges [sound recording] / Orlande de Lassus.
Published:     [France] : Astrâee, p1976-p1977.
Description:   2 sound discs : 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in.
LC Call No.:   M1529.4
               Astrâee AS 11--AS 12
Notes:         Astrâee: AS 11--AS 12.
               For 4 voices.
               Ensemble polyphonique de France ; Charles Ravier, director.
               From publication: Paris : Le Roy & Ballard, 1576.
               Recorded Feb. 1975, Eglise romane d'Amsoldingen, Switzerland
                  (t. 1) and Dec. 1976, Chapelle des Minimes, Tours (t. 2).
               "Radio France & Atelier de recherche Valois"--T. 1 container.
               Program notes by Marie-Madeleine Krynen with texts on
                  containers.
               t. 1. Chansons 1 áa 20 -- t. 2. Chansons 21 áa 44.
Subjects:      Polyphonic chansons.
               Part-songs, French.
Other authors: Ravier, Charles. cnd
Other authors: Ensemble polyphonique de France. prf
Control No.:   82760912 /R/r922

Author:        Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594.
Uniform Title: Responsoria pro Triduo sacro in nocturno II et III. Feria V in
                  Coena Domini ad Matutinum. Latin
Title:         Six responsories for Tenebrae on Maundy Thursday : Feria V in
                  Coena Domini ad Matutinum / Orlandus Lassus ; transcribed and
                  edited by Clive Wearing.
Published:     London : Mapa Mundi, c1978.
Description:   1 score (14 p.) ; 30 cm.
Series:        London Lassus series ; no. 2
LC Call No.:   M2098.M35 L
Notes:         For chorus (SATB).
               Latin words; English translations below caption for each
                  responsory.
               Edited from Ms. mus. 2749 in the Bavarian State Library,
                  Munich.
               Amicus meus -- Judas mercator pessimus -- Unus ex discipulis
                  meis -- Eram quasi agnus -- Una hora -- Seniores populi.
Subjects:      Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 4 parts), Unaccompanied.
               Maundy Thursday music.
               Tenebrae service music.
               Responses (Music)
Other authors: Wearing, Clive.
Other titles:  Responsories for Tenebrae on Maundy Thursday.
               6 responsories for Tenebrae on Maundy Thursday.
Series Entry:  Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Vocal music. Selections (London
                  Lassus series) ; no. 2.
Control No.:   82771451 /M/r85



Title:         Musik der Bayerischen Hofkappelle zur Zeit Orlando di Lassos /
                  herausgegeben von Horst Leuchtmann.
Published:     Wiesbaden : Breitkopf & Hčartel, 1981-<1989   >
Description:   1 score (v. <1-2   >) : facsims. ; 34 cm.
Series:        Denkmčaler der Tonkunst in Bayern ; n. F., Bd. 4, 7,
LC Call No.:   M2 .D4 n. F., Bd. 4, etc. M1549
Notes:         Words also printed as text.
               1. Auswahl. Madrigali a cinque voci de floridi virtuosi del
                  serenissimo Duca di Baviera : Venedig 1569 und 1575 -- 2.
                  Auswahl. Sdegnosi ardori = Zornesgluten : Adam Berg,
                  Mčunchen, 1585.
               Pl. no.: D.d.T.i.B.N.F.IV, VII,
Subjects:      Madrigals, Italian -- 16th century.
               Part-songs, Italian -- 16th century.
               Music -- Germany (West) -- Bavaria -Control No.:   82771465 /M/r932

Author:        Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594.
Uniform Title: Sacrae lectiones ex propheta Iob. Latin
Title:         Two motet cycles for Matins for the dead : Sacrae lectiones ex
                  Propheta Job (ca. 1560) and Lectiones sacrae novem, ex libris
                  Hiob excerptae (ca. 1583) / Orlando di Lasso ; edited by
                  Peter Bergquist.
Published:     Madison [Wis.] : A-R Editions, [1983]
Description:   1 score (xxi, 110 p., [3] p. of plates) : facsims. ; 29 cm.
Series:        Recent researches in the music of the Renaissance, 0486-123X ;
                  v. 55
LC Call No.:   M2 .R2384 vol. 55 M2082
ISBN:          0895791641 : $21.95
Notes:         For chorus (SATB); Latin words.
Subjects:      Motets.
               Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 4 parts), Unaccompanied.
               Funeral music.
Other authors: Bergquist, Peter.
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Lectiones sacrae ex libris Hiob
                  excerptae. Latin. 1983.
Other titles:  Motet cycles for Matins for the dead.
               2 motet cycles for Matins for the dead.
               Sacrae lectiones ex Propheta Job.
               Lectiones sacrae novem, ex libris Hiob excerptae.
Control No.:   83011852 /M/r932

Author:        Messmer, Franzpeter.
Title:         Orlando di Lasso : ein Leben in der Renaissance : Musik
                  zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit / Franzpeter Messmer.
Published:     Mčunchen : Edition Wissenschaft & Literatur, c1982.
Description:   240, [18] p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Series:        Edition Wissenschaft & Literatur
LC Call No.:   ML410.L3 M4 1982
Dewey No.:     784/.092/4 B 19
ISBN:          3922804047 : DM78.00
Notes:         "Die Musik Orlando di Lassos : Notenbeispiele" ([24] p. ; 25
                  cm.) laid in.
               Bibliography: p. [242]-[243]
               "Werkverzeichnis": p. [244]-[247]
               Includes index.
Subjects:      Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594.
               Composers -- Biography.
Control No.:   83203084 /MN

Author:        Pro Cantione Antiqua. prf
Title:         Masters of the high Renaissance [sound recording].
Published:     Ocean, N.J. : Musical Heritage Society, p1983.
Description:   1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in.
LC Call No.:   M1999
               Musical Heritage Society MHS 4850Z
Notes:         Musical Heritage Society: MHS 4850 (on container: MHS 4850Z).
               Motets.
               Pro Cantione Antiqua, with Suzanne Flowers, soprano ; Mark
                  Brown, conductor.
               Recorded at St. John's Church, Hackney, London, Feb. 17-18,
                  1983.
               Digital recording.
               Vexilla Regis (6:25) ; Domine exaudi orationem (2:21) ; Dextera
                  domine (1:59) / Orlandus Lassus -- Christus factus est pro
                  nobis / Felice Anerio (2:33) -- Dies sanctificatus / Giovanni
                  Pierluigi da Palestrina (2:53) -- Pange lingua / Estăeväao
                  Lopes Morago (4:21) -- Resonet in laudibus (1:09) ; Natus est
                  nobis (1:31) / Jacob Handl -- Haec dies / William Byrd (2:20)
                  -- Vere languores (3:15) ; Gaudent in coelis (1:46) / Tomas
                  Luis de Victoria -- Miserere mei Deus / Gregorio Allegri
                  (11:53).
Subjects:      Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices)
               Motets.
Other authors: Flowers, Suzanne. prf
               Brown, Mark, conductor. cnd
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Motets. Selections. 1983.
               Anerio, Felice, ca. 1560-1614. Christus factus est pro nobis.
                  1983.
               Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da, 1525?-1594. Motets (1563).
                  Dies sanctificatus. 1983.
               Morago, Estăeväao Lopes, fl. 1590-1630. Pange lingua. 1983.
               Handl, Jacob, 1550-1591. Musicum opus, 1. tomus. Resonet in
                  laudibus, voices (4). 1983.
               Handl, Jacob, 1550-1591. Natus est nobis. 1983.
               Byrd, William, 1542 or 3-1623. Cantiones sacrae, liber 2. Haec
                  dies. 1983.
               Victoria, Tomâas Luis de, ca. 1548-1611. Motets (1572). Vere
                  languores nostros. 1983.
               Victoria, Tomâas Luis de, ca. 1548-1611. Motets (1585). Gaudent
                  in coelis animae Sanctorum. 1983.
               Allegri, Gregorio, 1582-1652. Miserere. 1983.
Control No.:   83743303 /R/r923

Author:        Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594.
Uniform Title: Vocal music. Selections
Title:         Music for Holy Week and Easter Sunday [sound recording] /
                  Orlando di Lasso.
Published:     Ocean, N.J. : Musical Heritage Society, p1984.
Description:   2 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in.
LC Call No.:   M3.1
               Musical Heritage Society MHS 824896T
Notes:         Musical Heritage Society: MHS 824896T (MHS 4896--MHS 4897).
               The 4th-7th works are motets.
               Sung in Latin.
               Pro Cantione Antiqua ; Elizabeth Lane, Nancy Long, Suzanne
                  Flowers, sopranos ; Bruno Turner, conductor.
               Ed. recorded: Mapa Mundi Publications.
               Recorded Aug. 24-28, 1981, St. John's Church, Hackney, England.
               Digital recording.
               Texts with English translations printed on container.
               Three lamentations for Maundy Thursday (22:30) -- Three
                  lamentations for Good Friday (22:09) -- Three lamentations
                  for Holy Saturday (20:25) -- Aurora lucis rutilat (4:50) --
                  Surgens Jesus (3:24) -- Christus resurgens (2:43) -- Regina
                  coeli (2:25) -- Magnificat super Aurora lucis rutilat
                  (8:26).
Subjects:      Sacred vocal ensembles.
               Holy-Week music.
               Easter music.
               Lamentations of Jeremiah (Music)
               Motets.
               Magnificat (Music)
Other authors: Lane, Elizabeth. prf
               Long, Nancy. prf
               Flowers, Suzanne. prf
               Turner, Bruno. cnd
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Hieremiae prophetae
                  lamentationes.
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Motets. Selections.
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Magnificats, voices (10) (Aurora
                  lucis rutilat)
Other authors: Pro Cantione Antiqua. prf
Control No.:   83743403 /R/r964



Title:         Orlandus Lassus, 1532-1594 / onder redactie van Ignace Bossuyt.
Published:     Leuven : Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, K.U. Leuven :
                  Acco, 1982.
Description:   228 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
LC Call No.:   ML141.L35 L36 1982
Dewey No.:     784/.092/4 19
ISBN:          9033403900
Notes:         "Publikatie naar aanleiding van de tentoonstelling ...
                  Faculteitsgebouw Letteren en Wijsbegeerte van de Katholieke
                  Universiteit te Leuven, 11-31 maart 1982."
               Dutch and German.
               Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects:      Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594 -- Exhibitions.
Other authors: Bossuyt, Ignace.
Control No.:   84144507 /MN

Author:        Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594.
Uniform Title: Vocal music. Selections
Title:         Madrigals and motets [sound recording] / Orlando di Lasso.
Published:     Ocean, N.J. : Musical Heritage Society, [1984], p1981.
Description:   1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in.
LC Call No.:   M3.1
               Musical Heritage Society MHS 7029
Notes:         Musical Heritage Society: MHS 7029 (on container: MHS 7029W).
               Alsfeld Vocal Ensemble ; Wolfgang Helbich, conductor.
               Program notes in English by Wolfgang Boetticher, translated by
                  Lindsay Craig, on container.
               Four Italian madrigals. Al dolce suon (2:56) ; Ben convenne
                  madonna ; Second part : Solo n'andráo (4:28) ; Ove d'altra
                  montagn' ombra tocchi (3:23) ; Spent' áe d'amor ; Second part
                  : Ma che morta (4:21) -- Two Latin-French chansons. Lucescit
                  jam O socii ; Second part : Nunc bibamus non segniter (2:48)
                  ; Voir est beaucoup (1:36) -- Four motets. Domine quando
                  veneris (3:49) ; Beati pauperes (4:18) ; Second part : Beati
                  pacifici (2:55) ; Da pacem Domine (2:21) ; Gloria Patri et
                  Filio, et Spiritui Sancto (1:26) -- Two Latin madrigals.
                  Praesidium Sara (3:38) ; Bestia curvafia pulices (:58).
Subjects:      Vocal ensembles, Unaccompanied.
               Sacred vocal ensembles, Unaccompanied.
               Madrigals.
               Polyphonic chansons.
               Motets.
Other authors: Helbich, Wolfgang, 1943-  cnd
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Madrigals. Selections. 1984.
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Lucescit jam O socii. 1984.
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Voir est beaucoup. 1984.
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Motets. Selections. 1984.
Other authors: Alsfelder Vokalensemble. prf
Control No.:   84743305 /R/r932

Author:        Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594.
Uniform Title: Motets. Selections
Title:         Alma Redemptoris Mater ; Ave Regina Caelorum ; Regina Caeli ;
                  and, Salve Regina : four Marian antiphons for 6, 7, and 8
                  voices / Orlandus Lassus ; transcribed and edited by Clive
                  Wearing.
Published:     London : Mapa Mundi, c1982.
Description:   1 score (28 p.) ; 30 cm.
Series:        London Lassus series ; no. 8
LC Call No.:   M2089.L3 M78 1982
Notes:         First work, SATBSATB; 2nd, SSATTB; 3rd, SSAATTB; 4th, SSABATTB.
               Latin words; English translation printed as text precedes each
                  work.
Subjects:      Motets.
               Antiphons (Music)
               Regina Caeli laetare (Music)
               Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Songs and music.
Other authors: Wearing, Clive.
Other titles:  Alma Redemptoris Mater.
               Ave Regina Caelorum.
               Regina Caeli.
               Salve Regina.
Series Entry:  Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Vocal music. Selections (London
                  Lassus series) ; no. 8.
Control No.:   84755531 /M/r86

Author:        Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594.
Uniform Title: Sacrae cantiones, voices (5) (1582). Stabat Mater dolorosa.
                  Latin
Title:         Stabat Mater for divided choir, SSAT and ATTB / Orlandus Lassus
                  ; edited by Clive Wearing.
Published:     Borough Green, Sevenoaks, Kent : Novello, c1983.
Description:   1 score ([7], 31 p.) ; 25 cm.
LC Call No.:   M2099.L82 L
Notes:         Motet.
               Original Latin text with English translation: prelim. p. [6-7].
               Duration: ca. 15:00.
Subjects:      Stabat Mater dolorosa (Music)
               Motets.
               Part-songs, Sacred.
               Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 8 parts), Unaccompanied.
Other authors: Wearing, Clive.
Control No.:   84755860 /M/r882

Heading:       Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Vocal music. Selections (London
                  Lassus series)
References:    Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. London Lassus series
               London Lassus series
Notes:         no. 1 DLC
               London Mapa Mundi
               f DLC
               t DLC
               s DLC
               Lasso, O. Lamentations for Tenebrae on Maundy Thursday, c1978.
Control No.:   n  42015080 



Heading:       Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Chansons. Selections
References:    Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Fascicule des mâelanges
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Mâelanges
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Mellanges
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Meslanges
Notes:         His Ten chansons, c1977 (a.e.) p. 1 (edited from Mellange
                  d'Orlande de Lassus ... 1570, 1576)
               His Meslanges, vol. 2 [SR] 1977: label (Chansons) notes on
                  container ("Mâeslanges" means that this is not a collection
                  conceived by the composer as one unit, but a compilation of
                  various chansons already published at an earlier period)
               His Premier fascicule des mâelanges, 1894 (Mâelanges;
                  Meslanges; Mellanges)
Control No.:   n  78040233 



Heading:       Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Chansons, voices (4-6), book 3.
                  Susanne ung jour
References:    Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Susanne ung jour (Chanson)
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Susanne un jour (Chanson)
               nnaa Lassus, Orland de, d. 1594. Chansons, 4-6 voices, book 3.
                  Susanne, un jour
Notes:         The Big trombone [SR] p1978 (a.e.) label (Susanne un jour)
               La musica (Susanne, un jour, 1560: Tiers livre de chansons 4-6
                  v.)
               Divisions on Susanne ung jour, c1983: caption of acc. Lasso
                  score (Susanne ung jour)
               New Grove (Chansons: Susanne un jour, 5 vv. from Tiers livre
                  des chansons, 4-6 vv., Louvain, 1560)
Control No.:   n  79044267 



Heading:       Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594.
References:    nnaa Lassus, Orland de, d. 1594
               Lassus, Orland de, 1532-1594
               Lassus, Roland de, 1532-1594
               Lassus, Orlande de, 1532-1594
               Di Lasso, Orlando, 1532-1594
               Lassus, Orlandus de, 1532-1594
               Lassus, Orlandus, 1532-1594
Notes:         Baker, 6th ed. (Lassus, Roland de; b. Mons, 1532; lived there
                  to 1544; Italy to 1555; Antwerp to 1556; Munich to his death,
                  6/14/1594)
               MGG (Lasso, Orlando di)
               Eitner (Lassus, Orlandus de)
               Brockhaus Riemann Musiklex. (Lassus, Orlande de)
               His Stabat Mater, c1983: t.p. (Orlandus Lassus)
Control No.:   n  81037013 



Heading:       Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Vocal music. Selections
References:    nnaa Lassus, Orland de, d. 1594. Works, vocal. Selections
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Secular and religious choral
                  works
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Sacred and secular works
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Madrigals and motets
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Chansons francaises et
                  italiennes
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. French and Italian chansons
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Quatoirsiesme livre contenant
                  dixhuyet chansons italiennes, six chansons francoises & six
                  motetz
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Madrigale und Chansons zu 4-5
                  Stimmen
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Izbrannye khory
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Madrigale und Motetten
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Deftige Lieder und Chansons
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Orlando di Lasso,
                  heiter-komčodiantisch
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Music for Holy Week and Easter
                  Sunday
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Motets et chansons
Control No.:   n  81085512 



Heading:       Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Madrigals. Selections
References:    Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Madrigale und Villanellen
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. 4 italienische Madrigale
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Italienische Madrigale
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Vier italienische Madrigale
Control No.:   n  81085513 



Heading:       Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Motets. Selections
References:    Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Orlandi Lassi sacrae cantiones
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Sacrae cantiones, vulgo motecta
                  appellatae, quatuor, quinque, septem, octo, novem, decem &
                  duodecim vocum
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. 2 lateinische Madrigale
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Lateinische Madrigale
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Zwei lateinische Madrigale
               nnnb Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Alma Redemptoris Mater
               Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594. Mariengesčange und
                  Hoheliedmotetten
Control No.:   n  81085514