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“The Echo Song“ by Orlando di Lasso Double choir singing has its roots in four key practices. First is the Franco-Flemish double-choir canons of the early Renaissance. Second is the setting of two voices paired like a duet against another set of paired voices (SA/TB, SB/AT, ST/AB) particularly in the polyphony of Josquin de Pres, which became the norm in the music of next-generation composers such as Willaert, di Lasso, Palestrina, and on through history. Third is liturgical double-choir Salmi spezzati, the