Lassus was not only greatly renowned for his large-scale sacred, but also for his chansons, madrigals and Lieder. Even though his contemporaries did not hesitate to take their inspiration from the works of the "divine Orlando", he himself also seized upon models that he borrowed from some o the most famous pieces of the time; these included Pierre Sandrin's chanson Doulce mémoire, which he used as the theme for a Mass.