Orlando di Lasso: Musica Dei donum a 6 (c.1590)

This semi-religious motet was one of more than 2000 works by the prolific Franco-Flemish composer Orlando di Lasso (a.k.a. Roland DeLattre, Orlande de Lassus and Orlandus Lassus). He had traveled to all the most fabulous city-states of Renaissance Europe: Milan, Naples, Rome, Ferrara, Paris and finally Munich. He worked beside Palestrina in Rome, and taught the likes of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli in Munich. This light-hearted piece is a song in praise of Music, most likely written at the end of Lassus&long and productive career as music director and composer. The original MIDI files without voices was compiled and uploaded to CPDL.org by Pothárn Imre. I added the Latin text using the Spanish voice module MAIKA and the Vocaloid 4 vocal processor. The Renaissance organ sound doubling the Vocaloid choir was created using the pan pipe and pipe organ patches in MusicStudio2. Reverb and noise filtering were added using Audacity. Text: Musica Dei donum optimi trahit homines, trahit deos: Musica truces mollit animos tristesque mentes erigit. Musica vel ipsas arbores et horridas movet feras cunctisque solatia prestans. Translation: The music of God is the best gift it draws men and gods; music soothes the savage souls and raises up sad minds; or music moves the trees themselves and rough beasts, offering solace to all. Description of the photos: 1. Large chorus with singers and instruments, detail from an illuminated manuscript of the music of Cipriano de Rore, Hans...