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

by Richard Freedman

A study of how the secular lyrics of the French composer Orlando di Lasso were reworked by Protestant printers in the sixteenth century to convey new spiritual meanings.

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. Lasso's secular songs figured quite prominently in a number...

• 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"