(A Choral Worship Cantata in SATB, a cappella voicing, com...)
A Choral Worship Cantata in SATB, a cappella voicing, composed by Josquin Des Prez.
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(Book by Josquin des Prez)
Book by Josquin des Prez
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(Vocal score for SATB with Piano accomp. (for rehearsal only))
Vocal score for SATB with Piano accomp. (for rehearsal only)
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(4-vocum inaequalium; voices without accompaniment.)
4-vocum inaequalium; voices without accompaniment.
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(A choral worship collection, composed by Josquin Des Prez...)
A choral worship collection, composed by Josquin Des Prez. Titles: 1. In principio erat verbum (4 voices, a cappella) * 2. Responsum acceperat Simeon (6 voices, a cappella) * 3. Tulerunt Dominum meum (8 voices, a cappella).
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(Music Sales America). For four voices, with piano accompaniment for rehearsal purposes. Edited and arranged for modern use by Nigel Davison.
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(Josquin's tongue-in-cheek "day in the life of a cricket" ...)
Josquin's tongue-in-cheek "day in the life of a cricket" offers a unique programming opportunity. Mostly homophonic throughout, with several effective call-and-response moments, this delightful arrangement may be sung a cappella or with the provided piano part. Italian and English texts are included, as is a pronunciation guide.
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Josquin des Prez was born around 1450 or a few years later either in Hainaut (modern-day Belgium), or immediately across the border in modern-day France. In spite of his great fame, the accounts of his life are vague and the dates contradictory. Fétis contributed greatly towards elucidating the doubtful points in his Biographie universelle.
Josquin was a pupil of Ockenheim, and himself one of the most learned musicians of his time. In his early youth Josquin seems to have been a member of the choir of the collegiate church at St Quentin; when his voice changed he went (about 1455) to Ockenheim to take lessons in counterpoint.
After his studies, Josquin again lived at his birthplace for some years, till Pope Sixtus IV. invited him to Rome to teach his art to the musicians of Italy, where musical knowledge at that time was at a low ebb. In Rome Des Prés lived till the death of his protector (1484), and it was there that many of his works were written.
His reputation grew rapidly, and he was considered by his contemporaries to be the greatest master of his age. The composer’s journey to Rome marks in a manner the transference of the art from its Gallo-Belgian birthplace to Italy, which for the next two centuries remained the centre of the musical world. To des Prés and his pupils Arcadelt, Mouton and others, much that is characteristic in modern music owes its rise, particularly in their influence upon Italian developments under Palestrina.
After leaving Rome Des Prés went for a time to Ferrara, where the duke Hercules I. offered him a home; but before long he accepted an invitation of King Louis XII. of France to become the chief singer of the royal chapel. According to another account, he was for a time at least in the service of the emperor Maximilian I. The date of his death has by some writers been placed as early as 1501. But this is sufficiently disproved by the fact of one of his finest compositions, A Dirge (Déploration) for Five Voices, being written to commemorate the death of his master Ockenheim, which took place after 1512. The real date of Josquin’s decease has since been settled as the 27th of August 1521. He was at that time a canon of the cathedral of Condé.
The most complete list of his compositions—consisting of masses, motets, psalms and other pieces of sacred music—will be found in Fétis. The largest collection of his works, containing no less than twenty masses, is in the possession of the papal chapel in Rome. In his lifetime Des Prés was honoured as an eminent composer, and the musicians of the 16th century are loud in his praise. During the 17th and 18th centuries his value was ignored, nor does his work appear in the collections of Martini and Paolucci. Burney was the first to recover him from oblivion, and Forkel continued the task of rehabilitation. Ambros furnishes the most exhaustive account of his achievements. An admirable account of Josquin’s art, from the rare point of view of a modern critic who knows how to allow for modern difficulties, will be found in the article “Josquin, ” in Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, new ed. vol. ii. The Répertoire des chanteurs de St Gervais contains an excellent modern edition of Josquin’s Miserere.
Josquin was the most famous European composer between Guillaume Dufay and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.
During the 16th century, he was praised for both his supreme melodic gift and his use of ingenious technical devices. Josquin composed a lot of famous masses, motets, chansons and frottole such as "Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales", "Missa L'homme armé sexti toni" and many others.
(Josquin's tongue-in-cheek "day in the life of a cricket" ...)
(A Choral Worship Cantata in SATB, a cappella voicing, com...)
(A choral worship collection, composed by Josquin Des Prez...)
(4-vocum inaequalium; voices without accompaniment.)
(Vocal score for SATB with Piano accomp. (for rehearsal only))
(Book by Josquin des Prez)
((Music Sales America). For four voices, with piano accomp...)
Quotations: Luther said: “Other musicians do with notes what they can, Josquin what he likes. ”
