Orlando Di Lasso's Imitation Magnificats for Counter-Reformation Munich

Synopsis of Orlando Di Lasso's Imitation Magnificats for Counter-Reformation Munich

«Orlando Di Lasso's Imitation Magnificats for Counter-Reformation Munich» is David Crook's essay, published by Princeton University Press in paperback.

Study of Orlando di Lasso's forty parody Magnificats, based on motets, madrigals and songs by composers such as Josquin and Rore. Crook examines these pieces in their social, liturgical and historical contexts and argues that Lasso's reuse of pre-existing music was more imaginative than is usually acknowledged.

English-language edition of 312 pages in the Princeton Legacy Library series (no. 224); the work was originally published in 1994.

For musicologists, students and professionals interested in Renaissance music, church history and compositional theory.