ORLANDE DE LASSUS: Susanne un jour (with divisions by Bassano) PDF SCORE

Buy the PDF score here: Composed by Orlande de Lassus (1532-1594). From Mellange d’Orlande de Lassus, Paris, 1570; divisions by Giovanni Bassano (). From Motetti, madrigali et canzoni francese, Venezia, 1591. Julianne Baird, soprano Parthenia Giovanni Bassano’s print of 1591, though coming only a year before Riccardo Rognoni’s very manneristic examples, contains some beautifully paced and elegant divisions, particularly those on chansons such as Lassus’s “Susanne un jour’ and Crécquillon’s “Un gay bergier’ and “Oncques amour’. They representthe high point of traditional Renaissance divisions, just before the turn to mannerism, and many of the texted pieces, while unspectacular in terms of the quantity of divisions, are perhaps especially useful precisely because they are not artifically elaborate, but are relatively close to the kind of thing a gifted performer of the time would have had, literally, at his fingertips.— Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music, 1997