This Companion presents the most complete discussion ever published in English on the music of the greatest composer of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. A collaborative effort by a team of distinguished scholars, the volume provides a basic survey of Josquin's music and the many problems that attend it. Taking account of the most recent research, the book also includes a sampler CD of Josquin's works specially recorded by The Clerk's Group.

"Richly rewarding for anyone seriously interested in Josquin of Renaissance music in general....a splendid volume." --Journal of the American Musicological Society

Includes discography (p. [597]-639), bibliographical references (p. [642]-663) and index.

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. Introduction, Richard Sherr

2. Chronology of Josquin's Life and Career, Richard Sherr

3. Who Was Josquin?, Rob C. Wegman

4. Masses Based on Popular Songs and Solmization Syllables, Bonnie J. Blackburn

5. Masses on Plainsong Cantus Firmi, Alejandro Enrique Planchart

6. Masses Based on Polyphonic Songs and Canonic Masses, M. Jennifer Bloxam

7. Mass Sections, Richard Sherr

8. Missa Da pacem and Missa Allez regretz, Richard Sherr

9. Four-Voice Motets, Ludwig Finscher

10. Motets for Five or More Voices, John Milson

11. Two Hymns and Three Magnificats, Richard Sherr

12. Chansons for Three and Four Voices, Louise Litterick

13. Chansons for Five and Six Voices, Lawrence Bernstein

14. Three Settings of Italian Texts and Two Secular Motets, Richard Sherr

15. Analysing Josquin, John Milson

16. Josquin and Musical Rhetoric: Miserere mei, Deus and Other Motets, Patrick Macey

17. Symbolism in the Sacred Music of Josquin, Willem Elders

18. Afterword: Thoughts for the Future, David Fallows

Appendix A. List of Works, Peter Urquhart

Appendix B. Discography, Peter Urquhart

Bibliography

Index of Works by or attributed to Josquin

General Index