The Josquin companion

Oxford University Press

2000

xxix, 691 p.

978-0198163350

Contents: Chronology of Josquin's life and career / Richard Sherr -- Who was Josquin? / Rob C. Wegman -- Masses based on popular songs and Solmization syllables / Bonnie J. Blackburn -- Masses on plainsong Cantus Firmi / Alejandro Enrique Planchart -- Masses based on polyphonic songs and canonic masses / M. Jennifer Bloxam -- Mass sections / Richard Sherr -- Missa da pacem and Missa allez regretz / Richard Sherr -- Four-voice motets / Ludwig Finscher -- Motets for five or more voices / John Milsom -- Two hymns and three magnificats / Richard Sherr -- Chansons for three and four voices / Louise Litterick -- Chansons for five and six voices / Lawrence F. Bernstein -- Three settings of Italian texts and two secular motets / Richard Sherr -- Analysing Josquin / John Milsom -- Josquin and musical rhetoric: Miserere mei, Deus and other motets / Patrick Macey -- Symbolism in the sacred music of Josquin / Willem Elders -- Afterword: thoughts for the future / David Fallows. CD. Missa L'ami Baudichon: Kyrie (2:16) -- Missa De beata Virgine: Gloria (8:16) -- Credo Chascun me crie (6:13) -- Missa sine nomine: Sanctus/Benedictus (5:26) -- Missa Gaudeamus: Agnus Dei (6:04) -- Gaude Virgo, mater Christi (3:03) -- Salve regina a 5 (6:37) -- Miserere mei, Deus (13:33) -- Pater noster/Ave Maria (6:45) -- Si j'ay perdu mon ami a 3 (2:28) -- Si j'ay perdu mon ami a 4 (1:38) -- Faulte d'argent (3:06).

This Companion presents the most complete discussion ever published in English on the music of the greatest composer of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. A collaborative effort by a team of distinguished scholars, the volume provides a basic survey of Josquin's music and the many problems that attend it. Taking account of the most recent research, the book also includes a sampler CD of Josquin's works specially recorded by The Clerk's Group.

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