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Lassus was one of the most prolific composers of the era, producing over 2,000 works in nearly every vocal genre of his time. Over such a large corpus he also maintained a close connection between text and music – on both a large and small scales. Around a quarter of his works are motets setting texts from both the sacred (such as the Seven Penitential Psalms) and the secular (including the humanistic text of the extremely chromatic Prophetiae Sibyllarum). Lassus did not always have his works published quickly, perhaps not surprising as he was composing on average forty works a year. It was not until the period of 1568-73 that he had a lot of his works made into volumes.
:The liturgical works of Lassus that attract most attention are his sixty masses. However, among his other liturgical compositions are hymns, canticles (including over an hundred Magnificats), responsories for Holy Week, Passions, and Lamentations. All of his sacred music was written for the Catholic Church during this age of religious discord. The Jubilate Deo from this webcast has been attributed to Lassus’s period at the court of Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria in Munich. It was published in the Sacrae Cantiones for Four Voices (Munich, 1585). Albrecht was a strict Catholic and devoted himself to the task of establishing Catholic conformity in his dominions.
