Josquin des Prez and his musical legacy : an introductory guide /

Josquin des Prez and his musical legacy : an introductory guide /

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Author / Creator:Elders, Willem.
Edition:Rev. and translated ed.
Imprint:Leuven : Leuven University Press, c2013.
Description:247 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Josquin, -- des Prez, -- -1521.
Josquin, -- des Prez, -- -1521.
Composers -- Netherlands -- Biography.
Music -- Netherlands -- 15th century.
Music -- Netherlands -- 16th century.
Composers.
Music.
Netherlands.
Biography.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9341449
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ISBN:9789058679413
9058679411
Summary:Josquin des Prez and His Musical Legacy' is the most up-to-date contribution to the research on one of the most important and internationally famous composers of the Renaissance. This monograph offers factual information on the composer as well as insights into his 16th-century and modern reception, a survey of the sources of his music, and a discussion of the thorny issue of authorship. Willem Elders, one of the most distinguished scholars of Josquin's music, also discusses the influence of Gregorian chant as a source of inspiration and explains the various aspects of Josquin's symbolic language. Each individual work (including some of those in the old Josquin edition now considered inauthentic) receives a short discussion of relevant contextual aspects and interesting musical features. Ranges and lengths are given for each work. The style is adapted to the professional musicologist as well as to the music lover' and performer.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Bibliographical abbreviations and manuscript sigla
  • Part I. Josquin and his cultural environment
  • 1. Biography
  • Josquin's personality
  • Josquin's patrons
  • Portraits
  • 2. Josquin in the eyes of his admirers
  • Writers
  • Poets
  • Music theorists
  • Music publishers
  • Music historians
  • Composers
  • 3. The sources of Josquin's music
  • Manuscripts
  • Printed editions
  • Instrumental arrangements
  • Music theory treatises
  • 4. Issues of authenticity and chronology
  • Doubtful works
  • Chronology
  • 5. Gregorian chant as a source of inspiration
  • 6. Aspects of Josquin's symbolic language
  • Cantus prius factus
  • Soggetto ostinato
  • Special forms of notation
  • Mode and musica ficta
  • Canon
  • Number symbolism
  • Part II. Josquin's musical legacy
  • 7. Masses and Mass movements
  • Masses based on Gregorian chants
  • Masses based on secular monophonic songs
  • Masses based on secular polyphonic songs
  • Mass based on a sacred polyphonic song
  • Masses based on solmisation themes
  • Canonic Masses
  • Single Mass movements
  • 8. Motets
  • Motets on texts from the Old Testament
  • a). Genesis, Samuel, Job, Ecclesiasticus, The Song of Songs
  • b). The psalms
  • Motets on texts from the New Testament
  • Motets on non-biblical texts in honour of Jesus Christ
  • Motets on non-biblical texts in honour of the Virgin Mary
  • Antiphons
  • Sequences
  • Hymns
  • The Proper of the Mass
  • Books of Hours
  • Contemporaneous poems
  • Texts of unknown origin
  • Motets on other non-biblical texts
  • 9. Secular works
  • Secular works for three and four voices
  • Chansons from the courtly song tradition
  • Chansons from the folk song tradition
  • The Virgil Motets
  • The Frottole
  • Secular works with reconstructed texts
  • Chansons with no known text
  • Secular works for five and six voices
  • Chansons from the courtly song tradition
  • Chansons from the folk song tradition
  • Instrumental works
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix A. New Josquin Edition: summary of volumes and editors
  • Appendix B. List of authentic and doubtful works byJosquin
  • Index of names

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