Table of Contents

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: Richard Sherr: Introduction
2: Richard Sherr: Chronology of Josquin's Life and Career
3: Rob C. Wegman: Who Was Josquin?
4: Bonnie J. Blackburn: Masses Based on Popular Songs and Solmization Syllables
5: Alejandro Enrique Planchart: Masses on Plainsong Cantus Firmi
6: M. Jennifer Bloxam: Masses Based on Polyphonic Songs and Canonic Masses
7: Richard Sherr: Mass Sections
8: Richard Sherr: Missa Da pacem and Missa Allez regretz
9: Ludwig Finscher: Four-Voice Motets
10: John Milson: Motets for Five or More Voices
11: Richard Sherr: Two Hymns and Three Magnificats
12: Louise Litterick: Chansons for Three and Four Voices
13: Lawrence Bernstein: Chansons for Five and Six Voices
14: Richard Sherr: Three Settings of Italian Texts and Two Secular Motets
15: John Milson: Analysing Josquin
16: Patrick Macey: Josquin and Musical Rhetoric: Miserere mei, Deus and Other Motets
17: Willem Elders: Symbolism in the Sacred Music of Josquin
18: David Fallows: Afterword: Thoughts for the Future
Peter Urquhart: Appendix A. List of Works
Peter Urquhart: Appendix B. Discography
Bibliography
Index of Works by or attributed to Josquin
General Index

About the Author

Richard Sherr is Professor of Music at Smith College, USA

Reviews

... a comprehensive account, based on the latest scholarship ... aimed at both specialists in Renaissance musicology and students of music history generally ... benefits from the strengths of a multi-author approach. Renaissance Quarterly Impressive in terms of its overall conception and organisation ... provides a tremendous amount of well-informed information about a lot of music ... the Companion is both timely and, for the right audience, extremely valuable, for it presents a clear exposition of the state and character of present-day Josquin scholarship and what makes it tick. Musical Times The most important musicological contribution in the last 35 years to the life and work of undoubtedly one of the greatest composers of all time. This volume consists of 18 articles examining the life of the composer from very different angles. Its contributors include specialists of the stature of Bonnie J. Blackburn, Willem Elders, David Fallows, Ludwig Finscher, Alejandro Planchart, Richard Sherr, Rob C. Wegman and others, all cleverly chosen and co-ordinated by Sherr, who himself wrote six of the articles. The companion is ideally complemented by a CD performed by The Clerk's Group under the direction of Edward Wickham. It includes 12 of Josquin's most popular works selected from the many discussed in the close to 700 pages, the most up-to-date information and the most authoritative opinions about the "Virgil of music". Maricarmen Gomez, Early Music Magazine The contributors to "The Josquin Companion" are some of the finest scholars in its subject area ... readers will find [it] a superb example of the current state of work on some of the best music of 500 years ago. Times Literary Supplement The contributors here are a roll-call of the finest scholars working in the field, and the volume is far more valuable as a testimony to the diversity of current scholarship than as the expression of a single authorial voice. Edward Wickham, Classical Music This splendid, multi-authored collection of essays ... It also adds a biographical coup of its own: the frontispiece (and cover) is a photograph of a recently uncovered wall in the Sistine Chapel where Josquin has apparently scratched his own name ... try the marvellous works on the accompanying CD. BBC Music Magazine The Josquin Companion should have a long shelf life as a major work of reference. Sixteeenth Century Journal