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Reviewed Work(s): Liber Primus Missarum, Vols. I & II by Frei Manuel Cardoso and Jos
Augusto Alegria
Review by: D. L.
Source: Music & Letters, Vol. 45, No. 3 (Jul., 1964), pp. 286-288
Published by: Oxford University Press
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REVIEWS OF MUSIC
COLLECTED EDITIONS
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REVIEWS OF MUSIC 287
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288 MUSIC AND LETTERS
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Morago, Esteva
by Manuel J
Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, i96I.)
Estevao Lopes Morago, choirmaster at the cathedral of Viseu in
northern Portugal from I599 to I628, was one of the younger generation
of Portuguese polyphonists in the tradition of Manuel Mendes, Duarte
Lobo, Filipe de Magalhaes and Manuel Cardoso, a tradition fostered in
its later years by King John IV, himself a composer of no mean achieve-
ments. Little was known of Morago or his music until Manuel Joaquim
published the first fruits of his research in the I940's. This volume,
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