The Josquin Companion

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List of Illustrations
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Musical Examples
Contents of the Compact Disc
Notes on Contributors
Abbreviations and Manuscript Style
1 Richard Sherr: Introduction
2 Richard Sherr: Chronology of Josquin's Life and Career
3 Rob C. Wegman: Who Was Josquin?
4 Bonnie J. Blackburn: Masses Based on Popular Songs and Solmization Syllables
5 Alejandro Enrique Planchart: Masses on Plainsong Cantus Firmi
6 M. Jennifer Bloxam: Masses Based on Polyphonic Songs and Canonic Masses
7 Richard Sherr: Mass Sections
8 Richard Sherr: Missa Da pacem and Missa Allez regretz
9 Ludwig Finscher: Four-Voice Motets
10 John Milson: Motets for Five or More Voices
11 Richard Sherr: Two Hymns and Three Magnificats
12 Louise Litterick: Chansons for Three and Four Voices
13 Lawrence Bernstein: Chansons for Five and Six Voices
14 Richard Sherr: Three Settings of Italian Texts and Two Secular Motets
15 John Milson: Analysing Josquin
16 Patrick Macey: Josquin and Musical Rhetoric: Miserere mei, Deus and Other Motets
17 Willem Elders: Symbolism in the Sacred Music of Josquin
18 David Fallows: Afterword: Thoughts for the Future
Peter Urquhart: Appendix A. List of Works
Peter Urquhart: Appendix B. Discography
Bibliography
Index of Works by or attributed to Josquin
General Index

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The Josquin Companion presents both the scholarly and general reader with the most complete and concentrated discussion ever published in English on the music of Josquin des Prez (c.1450-1521) - the greatest composer of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Not a standard, single-author life and works, the volume provides a basic survey of Josquin's music and of the many problems which attend it. Through a collaborative effort of distinguished scholars, it takes into account the most recent research on Josquin. Beginning with a summary of the latest developments in the composer's constantly-changing biography and a discussion of his stature as a great man then and now, the Companion continues with chapters considering all the compositional genres employed by Josquin and offers wide-ranging surveys as well as close studies of individual pieces. Further chapters explore both traditional and untraditional analytical perspectives on Josquin's music, and suggest new avenues of research. A Worklist, Bibliography, and Annotated Discography (the first since the advent of the compact disc and the concurrent explosion of early music recording) end the book.

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Impressive in terms of its overall conception and organisation ... provides a tremendous amount of well-informed information about a lot of music ... the Companion is both timely and, for the right audience, extremely valuable, for it presents a clear exposition of the state and character of present-day Josquin scholarship and what makes it tick

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