Le quatoirsiesme livre a 4 parties (Orlando di Lasso)
General information
Publication date and place: 1555 by Tielman Susato, Anvers.
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Description: The first publication devoted entirely to Orlando di Lasso, commonly referred to as "Opus 1." In line with Lasso's somewhat cosmopolitan compositional predilections, it contains works in several languages and genres, including twelve Italian madrigals (a six-part sestina and six individual madrigals), six Villanesche, six French chansons, and six Latin motets.
In addition to being the first of a series of books that would soon launch Lasso to Europe-wide fame, this publication also has the notable distinction of containing the first known print of Cipriano de Rore's shockingly chromatic motet Calami sonum ferentes, placed by Lasso just after his own unusually chromatic Alma Nemes.
The book went through three editions, first in 1555 (RISM 1555-19), then c. 1558, then finally in 1560 (RISM 1560-4). The original 1555 edition has two variants, the second variant (apparently the result of a stop-the-press fix during the first printing) featuring slightly improved text-setting. An Italian variant of this edition (entitled "D'Orlando di Lassus il Libro Primo") also exists, although it is only extant in a single Superius part-book. The 1558 edition further improved the text placement, and the 1560 edition added the chanson Susanne un jour.
Voices: 4.
Facsimile The original 1555 edition, with uncorrected text placement. Münchener Digitization Center.
List of works
Works at CPDL
Title | Year | Composer | No. | Lyricist | Genre | Subgenre | Vo. | Voices |
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Alma Nemes | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 24 | Secular | Motets | 4 | SATB | |
Audi dulcis amica mea | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 20 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | SATT | |
Avecques vous | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 16 | Secular | Chansons | 4 | SATB | |
Calami sonum ferentes | 1555 | Cipriano de Rore | 25 | Secular | Madrigals | 4 | BBBB, TTTB | |
Ch'il credera | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 1.2 | Secular | Madrigals | 4 | SATT | |
Del freddo Rheno | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 1.1 | Secular | Madrigals | 4 | SATT | |
Domine quando veneris a 4 | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 23 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | SATT | |
En espoir vis | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 15 | Secular | Chansons | 4 | STTB | |
Et io qual fui | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 1.5 | Secular | Madrigals | 4 | SATT | |
Hor su la nuda terra | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 1.6 | Secular | Madrigals | 4 | SATT | |
Inclina Domine aurem tuam a 4 | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 22 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | SATT,SATB | |
Je l'aime bien et l'aimerai | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 17 | Secular | Chansons | 4 | SATB | |
La cortesia | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 11 | Secular | Villanellas | 4 | SATB | |
Las, voles vous | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 14 | Secular | Chansons | 4 | STTB | |
Madonna mia, pietà | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 8 | Secular | Villanellas | 4 | SATB | |
No giorno t'haggio | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 10 | Secular | Villanellas | 4 | STTB | |
Occhi, piangete | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 5 | Francesco Petrarca | Secular | Madrigals | 4 | STTB,SATB |
Peccantem me quotidie | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 21 | Sacred | Motets | 4 | SATB | |
Per pianto la mia carne | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 2 | Jacopo Sannazaro | Secular | Madrigals | 4 | SATB |
Perch'io veggio et mi spiace | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 7 | Francesco Petrarca | Secular | Madrigals | 4 | SATT |
Queste non son più lagrime | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 3 | Ludovico Ariosto | Secular | Madrigals | 4 | STTB |
Rotava et e pur ver | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 1.3 | Secular | Madrigals | 4 | SATT | |
Se ben l'empia | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 4 | Secular | Madrigals | 4 | STTB | |
Si fe cristallo | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 1.4 | Secular | Madrigals | 4 | SATT | |
Sto core mio | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 13 | Secular | Villanellas | 4 | SATT | |
Trop endurer | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 18 | Secular | Chansons | 4 | SATB | |
Tu sai madonna | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 9 | Secular | Villanellas | 4 | STTB | |
Tu traditora | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 12 | Secular | Villanellas | 4 | STTB | |
Vatene lieta homai | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 6 | Secular | Madrigals | 4 | SATB | |
Vrai Dieu disoit | 1555 | Orlando di Lasso | 19 | Secular | Chansons | 4 | SATT |