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Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-816335-5
1998
Mass Movements
1. Missa L'ami Baudichon Kyrie [2:24]
2. Missa de Beata Vergine Gloria [8:23]
3. Credo Chascun me crie [6:20]
4. Missa Sine nomine Sanctus / Benedictus [5:33]
5. Missa Gaudeamus Agnus dei [6:11]
Motets
6. Gaude Virgo mater Christi [3:10]
7. Salve regina a 5 [6:44]
8. Miserere mei, Deus [13:40]
9. Pater Noster / Ave Maria [6:52]
Chansons
10. Si j'ay perdu mon ami a 3 [2:35]
11. Si j'ay perdu mon ami a 4 [1:45]
12. Faulte d'argent [3:13]
The Clerks' Group
Edward Wickham
Carolyn Sampson, Rebecca Outram — sopranos
William Missin, Lucy Ballard — altos
Tom Raskin, Daniel Norman — tenors
Jonathan Arnold, Robert Macdonald — basses
Producer: Jonathan Freeman-Attwood
Engineer: Paul Proudman/ProudSound
Editor: David Wright/Gemini Sound
Recorded at St Andrew's Church, West Wratting, on 13-14 July 1998,
by kind pmnission of the Vicar and P.C.C.
The Josquin Companion
Contents
List of Illustrations, xi
List of Tables, xii
List of Musical Examples, xiii
Contents of the Compact Disc, xix
Notes on the Contributors , xx
Abbreviations and Manuscript Sigla, xxii
1. INTRODUCTION, 1
Richard Sherr
2. CHRONOLOGY OF JOSQUIN'S LIFE AND CAREER, 11
Richard Sherr
3. WHO WAS JOSQUIN?, 21
Rob C. Wegman
4. MASSES BASED ON POPULAR SONGS AND SOLMIZATTON SYLLABLES , 51
Bonnie J. Blackburn
5. MASSES ON PLAINSONG CANTUS FIRMI, 89
Alejandro Enrique Planchart
6. MASSES BASED ON POLYPHONIC SONGS AND CANONIC MASSES, 151
M. Jennifer Bloxam
7. MASS SECTIONS, 211
Richard Sherr
8. MISSA DA PACEM AND MISSA ALLEZ REGRETZ, 239
Richard Sherr
9. FOUR-VOICE MOTETS, 249
Ludwig Finscher
10. MOTETS FOR FIVE OR MORE VOICES, 281
John Milsom
11. TWO HYMNS AND THREE MAGNIFICATS, 321
Richard Sherr
12. CHANSONS FOR THREE AND FOUR VOICES , 335
Louise Litterick
13. CHANSONS FOR FIVE AND SIX VOICES, 393
Lawrence F. Bernstein
14. THREE SETTINGS OF ITALIAN TEXTS AND TWO SECULAR MOTETS, 423
Richard Sherr
15. ANALYSING JOSQUIN, 431
John Milsom
16. JOSQUIN AND MUSICAL RHETORIC: MISERERE MEI, DEUS AND OTHER
MOTETS, 485
Patrick Macey
17. SYMBOLISM IN THE SACRED MUSIC OF JOSQUIN, 531
Willem Elders
AFTERWORD: THOUGHTS FOR THE FUTURE, 569
David Fallows
Appendices
A. LIST OF WORKS, 579
Peter Urquhart
B. DISCOGRAPHY, 597
Peter Urquhart
Bibliography, 641
Index-Glossary of Technical Terms, 665
Index of Manuscripts and Early Primed Music, 668
Index of Compositions by or Attributed to Josquin, 673
General Index, 681
Notes on the
Contributors
Lawrence F. Bernstein is the Karen and Gary Rose Term Professor
of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. His research is devoted
primarily to the music of the Renaissance, particularly of Ockeghem and
Josquin and the sixteenth-century chanson. He is General Editor of the
American Musicological Society Monographs.
Bonnie J. Blackburn is a member of the Faculty of Music, Oxford
University. She has written on music and music theory of the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries and co-edited A Correspondence of
Renaissance Musicians (Oxford, 1991). She is General Editor of the
series Monuments of Renaissance Music.
M. Jennifer Bloxam is Professor of Music at Williams College.
Her research has focused on the implications of cantus firmi in sacred
polyphony of the fifteenth and early sixteenth century, particularly on
questions of local liturgical context and exegetical function. She is
currently preparing a study of multiple cantus firmus masses.
Willem Elders has been Professor of Music History before 1600 at
the University of Utrecht. He is the chair of the Editorial Board of
the New Josquin Edition, and has published extensively on Renaissance
music. He is the author of Studien zur Symbolik in der Musik der
alters Niederländer (1968) and Composers of the Low
Countries (Oxford, 1991).
David Fallows, FBA, is Professor of Music at the University of
Manchester. He is the author of Dufay (London, 1982, rev.
1987), A Catalogue of Polypbonic Songs, 1415-1480 (Oxford,
1999), and many articles about fifteenth-century music. He is
vice-president of the International Musicological Society and a
Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Ludwig Finscher has been Professor of Musicology and chair of
the musicology department at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe
Universität, Frankfurt am Main, and the University of Heidelberg.
He is a member of the Academia Europaea and holds the order Pour le
mérite, and is the editor of the new edition of Die Musik in
Geschichte und Gegenwart. His principal areas of research arc
fifteenth- and sixteenth-century music and Viennese classicism.
Louise Litterick is Associate Professor of Music at Mount
Holyoke College. Her research has concentrated on the French chanson
and its transmission in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; she has
also published on Brahms and Schubert.
Patrick Macey is Associate Professor of Musicology at the
Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. He has written
extensively on Josquin's motets. His Bonfire Songs: Savonarola's
Musical Legacy (Oxford, 1998) was awarded the Phyllis Goodhart
Gordan Book Prize by the Renaissance Society of America.
John Milsom is formerly a Student of Christ Church, Oxford and
Christian A. John-
son Professor of Music at Middlebury College, Vermont. His research
focuses on the production and ownership of music books, the study of
compositional process, and the analysis of early music. He is currently
working on a book on revisions in Renaissance polyphony.
Alejandro Enrique Planchart is Professor of Music at the
University of California at Santa Barbara. He has published numerous
studies on the life and music of Guillaume Du Fay and his
contemporaries as well as on the repertories of Latin chant of the
central Middle Ages. As a performer he has issued a pioneering series
of recordings of liturgical music of the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries.
Richard Sherr is Caroline L. Wall '27 Professor of Music at
Smith College. His main area of research has been the papal chapel in
the sixteenth century. He is the editor of Papal Music and
Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome (Oxford, 1998).
Peter Urquhart is Associate Professor of Music at the University
of New Hampshire. His publications have been concerned with questions
of musica ficta, cross-relations, and canon in fifteenth- and
sixteenth-century music. He is the founder and director of the Capella
Alamire.
Rob C. Wegman is Associate Professor of Music at Princeton
University. He is the author of Born for the Muses: The Life and
Masses of Jacob Obrecht (Oxford, 1994). His publications have
focused chiefly on music and culture in fifteenth-century Europe;
currently he is working on late-medieval musical aesthetics, Alexander
Agricola, and Josquin des Prez.