Lobo's Lamentations use long vocalizations of Hebrew letters and short bursts of concise declamation in the verses, with the Hebrew letters serving as moments of contemplation.
Composer Biography
Alonso Lobo, a Spanish composer, was baptized on February 25, 1555, in Osuna, a town about fifty miles from Seville.
Compositional Technique
In his Lamentations, Lobo's melismas at the three settings of Iod resemble ritual weeping in music, similar to the Spanish tradition of funerary llantas.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Alonso Lobo's motet "O quam suavis est, Domine" weaves a "celestial tapestry" with six crisscrossing voices, described as an "angelic ecstasy."
Composer's Artistic Vision
Alonso Lobo's Masses, with one exception, are based on motets by his mentor and hero, Francisco Guerrero, a Spanish composer.
Composer Biography
Lobo's musical talents led him to Seville Cathedral as a choirboy under the tutelage of Francisco Guerrero, a prominent Spanish composer.
Composition History
Six Masses and seven motets by Alonso Lobo were published in 1602 at the Royal Press in Madrid, with only twenty-one of the original one-hundred-and-thirty copies located today.
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