Josquin des Prez

Absalon fili mi is a Renaissance motet presumably composed by Josquin des Prez. It is a composition for four voices inspired on David’s lament over the death of his son Absalom. This motet contains religious subject because the poem is taken from the old testament of the Bible; however, it is not part of the liturgy. Departing from the tradition of the Medieval times, motets of the renaissance abandoned the use of the cantus firmus as a base of composition. Instead, all voices are polyphonically equal in values. In addition, some of the main characteristics of the renaissance music used in this motet are imitation technique, word painting and the use different types of cadences. The poem used in the motet is inspired based on the story…

choral music, written by Josquin des Prez in the second half of the 15th century during the Renaissance Era. This motet is a devotional piece to the Virgin Mary which consists of three total parts: a greeting to the Virgin Mary, an overview of the five major events of her life, and the author entreating Mary for mercy at their time of death (Rifkin). The piece exemplifies the ideals and characteristics of Renaissance music through its “syntactic imitation” structure, a rich texture through…

Josquin des Prez was a French composer of the Renaissance Era. The place and date of his birth is uncertain, and many documents of his life has parts missing. However, what is certain is that he was known by many as one of the greatest composers of the 16th century. Josquin is probably of French and Flemish ethnicity. He sang for the courts of Rene I of Anjou and Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza of Milan. Josquin performed for the papal chapel. He was even choirmaster for Duke Ercole I of…

Josquin des Prez is a Renaissance composer that was born in northern France in the year 1450. During his early years he spent his time in Cambrai where some of his earliest work is recorded during the early 1470’s. He spent most of his early years in Italy where he entered into the services of the Duke of Hercules of Ferrara in 1502. In 1505 he left Ferrara upon the death of the duke and became the provost of the collegiate church of Notre Dame. Josquin was one of the first composers whose…

for some composers to distance themselves from the sacred origins of the motet. Towards the end of the Fifteenth Century, motets generally used four-part counterpoint; from the turn of the Sixteenth Century to the era of Josquin, it was common for composers to write motets for either four or five voices (Sherr 2000: 250). In Illibata Dei virgo nutrix, an example of a five-voice motet, Josquin uses the letters of his own name acrostically to commence each line of text (Clutterham 1997).…

We talked about the current trends in music. I told him it was wonderful that the public now gets to enjoy printed music more easily because of the techniques by Petrucci and Attaingnant. Music flowed more freely from place to place and the world of music got just a bit smaller. We also talked about how printed music helped promote the artist over the music. When Petrucci published his first collection of motets, artists like Josquin des Prez gained notoriety. What other composer is so well…

isorhythmic convention, foreshadowing the decline of the use of isorhythm in the motet. Alternatively, since these proportions allegedly match those of the biblical Temple of Solomon (Wright 1994: 406), Du Fay may have broken with convention in order simply to reinforce the religious message of his motet. As one of the last notable isorhythmic motets to be composed, Nuper Rosarum Flores could be said to show the beginnings of a new, more imaginative outlook towards compositional practice, albeit…

Josquin des Drez(ca.1440-1521), a legendary fame, remains a historical figure for his unusual musical talent. The administrative records that depicts him as a legend of music are few or let’s say rare to found with certainty. But, some of the remains gives us the outline of his contributions in the field of music during renaissance. During his period, the quality of his music was hardly appreciated than the music of his contemporaries as a result of which we can now only find the works of…

Andrew Chen Ms. Bergen AP European History 4 June 2018 Josip Broz Tito: The Rebel Communist Josip Broz, more commonly known as Tito, was born on May 7, 1892 in the village of Kumrovec in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (modern-day Croatia). He was the seventh of fifteen children in a large peasant family, with a Croat father and a Slovene mother. At the early age of seven, he began working on his family’s farm. He entered primary school in Kumrovec at…

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