| Other author/creator | Lowinsky, Edward E. (Edward Elias), 1908-1985. |
| Other author/creator | Blackburn, Bonnie J. |
| Other author/creator | American Musicological Society. |
| Other author/creator | International Musicological Society. |
| Other author/creator | Renaissance Society of America. |
| Contents |
The opening session. Josquin des Prez: the man and the music / Friedrich Blume -- Biographical background and historical view. Ascanio Sforza's life: a key to Josquin's biography and an aid to the chronology of his works / Edward E. Lowinsky ; New light on Josquin's benefices / Jeremy Noble ; Josquin at Ferrara: new documents and letters / Lewis Lockwood ; Art and architecture in Lombardy at the time of Josquin des Prez / Maria Luisa Gatti Perer ; Burney and Ambros as editors of Josquin's music / Don Harrán -- Source studies. Josquin and the courts of the Netherlands and France: the evidence of the sources / Herbert Kellman ; Josquin in the music of Spain and Portugal / Robert Stevenson ; Josquiniana in some manuscripts at Piacenza / Martic Picker -- Josquin's motets in the German tradition / Winfried Kirsch ; Josquin in Czech sources of the second half of the sixteenth century / Jitka Snížková ; Problems in the interdependence of Josquin sources / Lothar Hoffmann-Erbrecht -- Style and analysis. Towards objective criteria for establishing chronology and authenticity: what help can the computer give? / Arthur Mendel ; The structure of wide-spanned melodic lines in early and later works of Josquin / Walter Wiora ; Tonal tendencies in Josquin's use of harmony / Saul Novack ; On the treatment of dissonance in the motets of Josquin des Prez / Carl Dahlhaus ; Problems of authenticity in Josquin's motets / Edgar H. Sparks ; An unsolved riddle: the absence of Ambrosian melodies in Josquin's sacred music / Jacquelyn A. Mattfeld -- |
| Contents |
Studies of genres. Unifying techniques in selected masses of Josquin and La Rue: a stylistic comparison / Walter H. Rubsamen ; The literary texts of Josquin's chansons / Brian Jeffery ; Josquin's three-part "chansons rustiques": a critique of the readings in manuscripts and prints / Japp van Benthem ; Josquin's compositions on Italian texts and the frottola / Claudio Gallico ; Instrumental transcriptions of Josquin's French chansons / G. Thibault ; Accidentals and ornamentation in sixteenth-century intabulations of Josquin's motets / Howard Mayer Brown ; Plainchant in the motets, hymns, and magnificat of Josquin des Prez / Willem Elders -- Individual works. "Illibata Dei virgo": a melodic self-portait of Josquin des Prez / Myroslaw Antonowycz ; "Ut Phoebe radiis": the riddle of the text resolved / Virginia Woods Callahan ; Some remarks on the "Missa La sol fa re me" / James Harr ; The polyphonic "Missa De beata virgine" as a genre: the background of Josquin's lady mass / Gustave Reese -- Performance practice. The performance of sacred music in Italy during Josquin's time, c. 1475-1525 / Frank A. D'Accone ; Musical structure and performance practice in mass and motets of Josquin and Obrecht / Rene Bernard Lenaerts ; Historical reconstruction versus structural interpretation in the performance of Josquin's motets / Ludwig Finscher ; On the discography of Josquin and the interpretation of his music in recordings / Nanie Bridgman ; Workshops on performance and interpretation. Josquin's motets ; Josquin's secular music ; Josquin's masses -- Symposium on problems in editing the music of Josquin des Prez: a critique of the first edition and proposals for the second edition. |
| General note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 0193152290 |
