Sunday Musical Selection
Palestrina's Missa Lauda Sion, from his setting of Mass for four voices, published in 1582:
https://youtu.be/Uq4-BgseDrU
And Antonio Vivaldi's Lauda Jerusalem, composed in 1739:
https://youtu.be/CYAn8roqEtA
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