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Rudolph di Lasso. (Music Reviews).(Book Review)-

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Rudolph di Lasso. Virginalia Eucharistica (1615). Edited by Alexander J. Fisher. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era, 1114.) Middleton, Wisc.: A-R Editions, Inc., c2002 [Acknowledgments, p. vii; introd., p. ix-xiv; texts and trans., p. xv-xxii; 2 plates; dedication in Lat., Eng., p. 2; score, p. 3-263; crit. report, p. 269-72. ISBN 0-89579-498-5. $106.]

Here are yet more Lasso motets, but not by the prolific Orlando. Instead, these sacred concertos for one to eight voices, basso continuo, and sometimes instruments as well are by the great master's second son, Rudolph (born in 1563 and dying sometime after 1625). The young Lasso is today remembered (together with his older brother, Ferdinand) for his role in the preparation of a number of important posthumous editions of his father's sacred music. The Magnum opus musicum (Munich: Nikolaus Heinrich, 1604), a truly monumental gathering of over five hundred of the senior Lasso's motets assembled according to their presumed liturgical function, exerted a lasting influence on generations of musicians--and on musicologists, too, eventually serving...

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