Word: lassus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subtle and restrained style of composers like Palestrina, Lassus, and Byrd captures this spirit of churchliness and reserved devoutness. But the less inhibited treatment of sacred texts which the tremendous resources and freedom of the concert hall fosters, though certainly less churchly, is not of necessity less pious...
...girl choir sang these strange, loose lines of melody with dignity and devotion. Listeners found them equally able when they undertook the complicated part-writing of Orlandus de Lassus and Tallis. They thrilled when the girls implored God's mercy in a hymn which flagellants are said to" have howled along German roads in the plague year...
...program announced for the Brooklyn recital is as follows: "Personent Hodie" by Holst; Lassus' "Ipso Te Cogat Pietas"; "Miserere" by Allegri; Morely's "My Bonny Lass"; Handel's "Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite"; a choral from Cantata no. 41 by Bach; three "Love Songs" by Brahms; Holst's "A Dirgo For Two Veterans" and choruses from Sullivan's "Iolanthe...
...composers to look to the horizontal aspect of their music as well as the vertical one, and the perfection of the art of diatonic composition have a unifying effect on the choral music performed after that time. Mr. Wooldridge devotes generous portions of his book to a discussion of Lassus, Byrd, and Palestrina...
...particular. Moreover the book has a truly musical structure in that space is devoted more to the printing of the compositions themselves than to the discussion of them. The reader may not find the music very tuneful; he may be piqued not to find a favorite bit of Lassus included in the collection of reproductions. But considering that the number of Lassus's compositions has been estimated at 1250 and upwards, possible oversights of this kind can be accounted for. Beyond the covers of the book Dr. Davison provides Harvard readers with many interpretations of the motets of the period...