Adam Berg issued Lasso's Cantica sacra sex et octo vocibus almost simultaneously with the four-voice motets found in CM 14. The concluding eight-voice motet, "Omnia tempus habent," draws its dialogue structure from that of the text itself and includes abundant word-painting.

The fifteen six-voice motets are each outstanding in this and other ways. Most set scriptural or liturgical texts, while "Huc ades, o Erneste" is in honor of the younger brother of Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria. For the respo...