Following the scent of the Huntsmen’s Mass: the tradition and legacy of Lasso's Missa Iager

Journal article

Lasso’s second-shorted mass, the Missa Iager, has traditionally been assumed to represent a ‘mass for the hunt’, i.e. an abridged version of the mass that suited a hunting party itching to mount their horses. This view can be seriously challenged by the transmission of Lasso’s mass in manuscript and print, which survives almost exclusively in monastic settings, far removed from the milieu of the courtly hunt. A lexical survey of the terms ‘Jägermesse’ and ‘missa venatorum’ in the early modern...

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Authors: Leitmeir, C

• Publication status: Accepted
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Belgian Musicological Society Publisher's website
• Journal: Revue Belge de Musicologie Journal website
• Volume: 71 (2017)
• Acceptance date: 2018-01-11
• EISSN: 2034-1938
• ISSN: 0771-6788
• Language: English
• Keywords: Article