Victoria

his last work — written for the funeral of the Empress Maria; more intimate and personal than any earlier polyphony; the Requiem aeternam is heartbreaking

the chromaticism is striking for Spanish Renaissance — ”Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?”

Good Friday darkness — each responsory darker than the last; the last responsory has no resolution

motet — from the Officium Defunctorum; devastating simplicity

parody mass on Janequin’s battle chanson La Guerre — sacred and secular layered