Tuesday, April 12, 2016

16th century cadences, part 3: Lassus, bicinia with text n15

The last of the texted bicinia uses the same text as n6. Here again I have shown beginning and ending only, and here again the opening phrase is quite long and without cadence in my excerpt (probably this does have something to do with text painting, since the text is about "filling the poor with plenty"; KJV: "He hath filled the hungry with good things"). And here again the focus of my interest is the ending, which offers a more elaborately embellished cadence than did n6, along with even more emphatic rising gestures.