Orlando Di Lasso Studies

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Edited by Peter Bergquist

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published June 1999, 275 pages, cloth

ISBN 0521593875

Orlando di Lasso was the most famous and most popular composer of the second half of the 1500s. This book of essays written by leading scholars from Europe and the United States is the first full-length survey in English of a broad spectrum of Lasso's music. The essays discuss his large and varied output with regard to structure, expressive qualities, liturgical aspects, and its use as a model by other composers, focusing in turn on his Magnificat settings, masses, motets, hymns, and madrigals.