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Rare Lassus Masterpieces
Renaissance Beauty
Sunday, February 25, 3:00 p.m., St. Mary Mother of God
727 Fifth St. NW (at H St.), Washington, DC (Gallery Place Metro)
Missa Sesquialtera
Lamentations of Jeremiah
Rarely--heard motets and hymns
* In his day the best-known and most widely-admired musician in Europe, Lassus is
often named today with Palestrina and Byrd as supreme in the art of 16th century, late
Renaissance counterpoint
* Lassus's prolific ouevre of polyphonic sacred works displays immense variety in
musical invention and mastery of musical rhetoric and tone-painting.
* Lassus's seldom-heard Missa Sesquialtera features masterful and varied use of the
favorite rhythmic proportion of the Renaissance proportio sesquialtera.
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