Definition of Lassus

1. lassu [n] - See also: lassu

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lassus

last(a)
last-ditch
last-gasp
last-minute
last-name
last-place
last burst of fire
last bursts of fire
last but not least
last ditch
last eight
last four

Literary usage of Lassus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, George Grove (1880)
"His real name wae probably Delattre, but the form de lassus seems to have been constantly used in Mons at the timé, »nd was not his own invention. ..."

2. List of documents in Spanish archives relating to the history of the United by James Alexander Robertson (1910)
"Casa Calvo and Salcedo to De Hault de lassus. AI, Pap. proc. de Cuba. MHS, Houck. ... Endorsement of Soulard's petition by De Hault de lassus. ..."

3. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"We have it on his own authority that he was afterwards a pupil of Orlando lassus at Munich, where also his first publication, a volume of Motets a 5-6, ..."

4. The Oxford History of Music by William Henry Hadow (1905)
"lassus. While the offshoots of the Flemish stock, the schools established in ... lassus, a pure Netherlander, was born in the town of Mons, about 1520, ..."

5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1801)
"By Peter lassus A Medicine and Surgery.—An Examination of the Stomach of a melancholy ... By M. lassus. Bertrand Pelletier was born at Bayonne in 1764, ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"During his residence in Rome, lassus completed his first volume of Masses for ... After a sojourn of probably two years in Rome, lassus, learning of the ..."

7. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"They still stand upon the art of the Netherland masters; Eccard was a pupil of the great lassus; but the congregational tune comes to its full rights. ..."

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