Day: April 28, 2014

Front facade of Houghton Library

What’s New: Di Lasso motet partbooks

The Harvard Theatre Collection has just purchased a pair of bound volumes of Orlando Di Lasso motet partbooks, printed in 1588. At this time, music was printed note by note in movable type. Due to the extreme complexity of lining up four, five, or eight parts in a score using this process, most works were…