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Manuscript copy from the papacy of Pope Leo X showing the opening Kyrie of Josquin's Missa de Beata Virgine

The French composer Josquin des Prez was among the most prolific of his time, writing in genres that included masses, motets, chansons and frottole. Much of his output is sacred music, in which he cultivated and developed a highly sophisticated style of complex polyphony. Active during the high Renaissance, he was the central figure of the Franco-Flemish School.[1]

The difficulties in compiling a works list for Josquin cannot be overstated. Because of his immense prestige in the early sixteenth century, many scribes and publishers did not resist the temptation of attributing anonymous or otherwise spurious works to Josquin. The German editor Georg Forster summed up the situation admirably in 1540 when he wrote, "I remember a certain eminent man saying that, now that Josquin is dead, he is putting out more works than when he was alive."[2] Thus, the authenticity of many of the works listed below is disputed on stylistic grounds or problems with sources or both. This thorny issue has been taken up vigorously in the now nearly complete New Josquin Edition (NJE).

Masses

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  1. Missa Ad fugam (canonic, four voices)
  2. Missa Ave maris stella (Rome, 1486–1495) (four voices)
  3. Missa D'ung aultre amer (four voices; authorship doubted by some scholars, published as authentic in NJE)
  4. Missa de Beata Virgine (around 1510) (four voices in parts I–II, five voices in parts III–V)
  5. Missa Di dadi (=N'aray je jamais) (four voices; authorship doubted by some scholars, published as authentic in NJE)
  6. Missa Faisant regretz (four voices)
  7. Missa Fortuna desperata (four voices)
  8. Missa Gaudeamus (four voices)
  9. Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae (Ferrara, 1503/04) (four voices, six in Agnus III)
  10. Missa La sol fa re mi (four voices)
  11. Missa L'ami Baudichon (four voices)
  12. Missa L'homme armé sexti toni (four voices, six in Agnus III)
  13. Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales (four voices)
  14. Missa Malheur me bat (four voices, six in Agnus III)
  15. Missa Mater patris (four voices; authorship doubted by some scholars on stylistic grounds, published as authentic in NJE)
  16. Missa Pange lingua (Condé, around 1514) (four voices)
  17. Missa Sine nomine (four voices; canonic mass, also titled "Missa Ad fugam" in later print)
  18. Missa Une mousse de Biscaye (four voices; authorship doubted by some scholars, published as authentic in NJE)

Doubtful works:

  1. Missa Allez regrets (printed in Werken by Smijers with reservations; considered authentic by Osthoff, otherwise doubted by many; possibly by Johannes Stokem)
  2. Missa da pacem (four voices; authorship widely doubted; probably by Noel Bauldeweyn)
  3. Missa Quem dicunt homines (4 voices, 5 in Agnus III). Only one source of this mass shows Josquin's authorship, but it is defended by some scholars like Rob C. Wegman because of the highest quality and crystal purity of its polyphony, which is characteristic of Josquin's late style.

Mass fragments

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  1. Credo Chascun me crie (= Des rouges nez)
  2. Credo De tous biens playne
  3. Credo Vilayge (I)
  4. Credo Vilayge (II) (of doubtful authorship)
  5. Credo [Quarti toni] (canonic) (of doubtful authorship except considered authentic by Urquhart)
  6. Gloria De beata virgine
  7. Sanctus De passione
  8. Sanctus D'ung aultre amer

Motets

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  1. Absalon, fili mi (4vv) (attribution has been challenged; conjecturally attributed to Pierre de La Rue)
  2. Absolve, quaesumus, Domine/Requiem aeternam (6vv) (attribution has been challenged)
  3. Alma redemptoris mater;
  4. Alma redemptoris mater / Ave regina caelorum;
  5. Ave Maria ... benedicta tu (4vv);
  6. Ave Maria ... Virgo serena (Milan 1484/85);[3]
  7. Ave munda spes, Maria (not in first complete works edition)
  8. Ave nobilissima creatura
  9. Ave verum corpus natum
  10. Benedicta es, caelorum regina
  11. Christum ducem, qui per crucem (4vv)
  12. De profundis clamavi (4vv) (possibly middle-period composition: attribution has been questioned)
  13. De profundis clamavi (5vv) (late composition)
  14. Domine exaudi orationem meam
  15. Domine, ne in furore tuo (4vv)
  16. Domine, non-secundum peccata nostra (2-4vv; for Rome)
  17. Ecce, tu pulchra es, amica mea
  18. Factum est autem
  19. Gaude virgo, mater Christi
  20. Homo quidam fecit cenam magnam
  21. Honor, decus, imperium
  22. Huc me sydereo descendere jussit Olympo (5vv)
  23. Illibata Dei virgo nutrix
  24. In exitu Israel de Aegypto
  25. In illo tempore assumpsit Jesus duodecim discipulos
  26. Iniquos odio habui (4vv, only tenor part survives)
  27. In principio erat Verbum (authenticity has been questioned)[4]
  28. Inviolata, integra et casta es Maria
  29. Jubilate Deo omnis terra
  30. Liber generationis Jesu Christi
  31. Magnificat quarti toni (attributed to Josquin on stylistic grounds)
  32. Magnificat tertii toni (attributed to Josquin on stylistic grounds)
  33. Memor esto verbi tui
  34. Miserere mei Deus (Ferrara, 1503)
  35. Misericordias Domini in aeternum cantabo (France, 1480/83)
  36. Missus est Gabriel angelus ad Mariam Virginem
  37. Mittit ad virginem
  38. Monstra te esse matrem
  39. O admirabile commercium (part of a 5-motet cycle)
  40. O bone et dulcissime Jesu
  41. O Domine Jesu Christe (part of a Passion setting in 5 sections)
  42. O virgo prudentissima
  43. O virgo virginum
  44. Pater noster, qui es in caelis (Condé, 1505–1521)
  45. Planxit autem David
  46. Praeter rerum seriem
  47. Qui edunt me adhuc
  48. Qui habitat in adiutorio altissimi (4vv)
  49. Qui habitat in adiutorio altissimi (24vv)
  50. Qui velatus facie fuisti (part of a Passion setting in 6 sections)
  51. Salve regina (4vv)
  52. Salve regina (5vv, 1502)
  53. Stabat Mater
  54. Tu lumen, tu splendor
  55. Tu solus qui facis mirabilia
  56. Usquequo Domine oblivisceris me (attrib on stylistic grounds; only part survives)
  57. Ut Phoebi radiis
  58. Veni, sancte spiritus (also attrib to Forestier)
  59. Victimae paschali laudes
  60. Virgo prudentissima
  61. Virgo salutiferi (Ferrara, 1503/04)
  62. Vultum tuum deprecabuntur (7-part Passion cycle) (1480s)

Motet-chansons

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  1. A la mort / Monstra te esse matrem
  2. Fortune destrange plummaige/Pauper sum ego
  3. Que vous madame / In pace in idipsum

Chansons

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  1. A l'heure que je vous
  2. A l'ombre d'ung buissonet, au matinet (3vv)
  3. Adieu mes amours
  4. Adieu mes amours (6vv or 7vv)
  5. Allégez moy (6vv)
  6. Baisé moy, ma doulce amye (4vv)
  7. Belle, pour l'amour de vous
  8. Bergerette savoyenne
  9. Cela sans plus
  10. Comment peult haver joye
  11. Cueur langoreulx
  12. De tous biens plaine (3vv)
  13. De tous biens plaine (4vv)
  14. Douleur me bat
  15. Du mien amant
  16. Dulces exuviae
  17. En l'ombre d'ung buissonet tout, au long (3vv)
  18. En l'ombre d'ung buissonet tout, au long (4vv)
  19. Entré je suis en grant pensée (3vv)
  20. Entré je suis en grant pensée (4vv)
  21. Fama malum
  22. Faulte d'argent
  23. Fors seulement (only one of six voice parts survives)
  24. Fortuna d'un gran tempo
  25. Helas madame
  26. Ile fantazies de Joskin
  27. Incessament livré suis à martire
  28. Je me complains
  29. Je ne me puis tenir d'aimer (5vv)
  30. Je n'ose plus
  31. Je ris et si ay larme
  32. Je sey bien dire
  33. La belle se siet
  34. La Bernardina
  35. La plus de plus
  36. Le villain [jaloux]
  37. Ma bouche rit et mon cueur pleure
  38. Mille Regretz (4vv)
  39. Mon mary m'a diffamée
  40. N'esse pas ung grant desplaisir
  41. Nymphes des bois (written for the death of Johannes Ockeghem)
  42. Nymphes, nappés / Circumdederunt me
  43. Parfons regretz
  44. Petite camusette
  45. Plaine de dueil
  46. Plus n'estes ma maistresse
  47. Plus nulz regretz (written between 1508 and 1511, commemorating the 1507 Treaty of Calais (1507));
  48. Plusieurs regretz
  49. Pour souhaitter
  50. Quant je vous voye
  51. Qui belles amours a
  52. Recordans de my signora
  53. Regretz sans fin
  54. Se congié prens
  55. Si j'ay perdu mon amy (3vv)
  56. Si j'ay perdu mon amy (4vv)
  57. Tant vous aimme Bergeronette
  58. Tenez moy en voz bras
  59. Une mousque de Biscaye;
  60. Vive le roy (instrumental piece, written for Louis XII)
  61. Vous l'arez, s'il vous plaist
  62. Vous ne l'arez pas
  63. textless (4vv)

Frottole

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  1. El Grillo
  2. In te Domine speravi per trovar pietà
  3. Scaramella va alla guerra

References

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  1. ^ Macey et al. 2011.
  2. ^ Jesse Rodin, "A Josquin Substitution," Early Music 34.2 (2006), p. 246
  3. ^ For the latest work on dating, see Joshua Rifkin, Munich, Milan, and a Marian Motet: Dating Josquin's "Ave Maria ... virgo serena," Journal of the American Musicological Society 56.2 (2003), pp. 239–350
  4. ^ Finscher, Sherr, p. 264n

Sources

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  • Fallows, David. Josquin. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, Second edition, 2020, ISBN 978-2-503-56674-0.
  • Macey, Patrick; Noble, Jeremy; Dean, Jeffrey; Reese, Gustave (2011) [2001]. "Josquin (Lebloitte dit) des Prez". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.14497. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
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