Josquin Des Prez and His Musical Legacy: An Introductory Guide

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
• by Josquin
• Index of names