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Article: Orlando di Lasso's Imitation Magnificats for Counter-Reformation Munich.
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 1997
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Crook's fine study, focused on a comparatively obscure subspecies of liturgical composition, is not so narrow as its title suggests. He notes that Lasso's "imitation" Magnificats (i.e., those composed upon pre-existing motets, madrigals and chansons, rather than upon psalmodic formulas from plainsong) remind us how much we yet can learn from Lasso, whose devotion and skill enabled him to embrace and sustain a diverse inheritance. For Lasso, says the author's final paragraph, "the imitation Magnificat was neither timesaving convenience nor agonistic subversion of the past," but instead expressed the respect and confidence with which Lasso "granted the past its voice and at ...