The Chansons of Orlando Di Lasso and Their Protestant Listeners: Typhus and Tunisia

by Richard Freedman

This book aims to enrich our understanding of the French secular music of Orlando di Lasso, using those songs as a means of understanding a particular community of Renaissance readers and the music books they created. The Lasso chansons dominate many of the anthologies of secular music brought out by firms such as Le Roy et Ballard (in Paris) and Pierre Phalese (in Louvain and Antwerp) during the later years of the sixteenth century. Perhaps less...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580460755
• ISBN13: 9781580460750
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"