Monday, 24 February 2014

Missa Pange Lingua. Composer: Josquin Des Pres (1450-1521). The Tallis Scholars.



1611 woodcut of Josquin des Prez, 
copied from a now-lost oil painting done during his lifetime.
A facsimile copy of the famous woodcut
from Petrus Opmeer's Opvs chronographicvm orbis vniversi a
mvndi exordio vsqve ad annvm M.DC.XI. (Antwerp, 1611).
Date: 22 July 2003 (original upload date).
Source: Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is/was here.
Author: Original uploader was Clattuc at en.wikipedia.
(Wikimedia Commons)

Josquin des Prez (or Josquin Lebloitte dit Desprez; 1450/1455 – 1521), often referred to simply as Josquin, was a Netherlands composer of the Renaissance. He is also known as Josquin Desprez and Latinised as Josquinus Pratensis, alternatively Jodocus Pratensis. He himself spelled his name "Josquin des Prez" in an acrostic in his motet Illibata Dei virgo nutrix. He was the most famous European composer between Guillaume Dufay and Palestrina, and is usually considered to be the central figure of the Franco-Flemish School. Josquin is widely considered by music scholars to be the first Master of the High Renaissance style of polyphonic vocal music 
that was emerging during his lifetime.


Missa Pange Lingua.
Josquin des Pres (1450-1521).
Kyrie.
Gloria 2:57.
Credo 7:17.
Sanctus & Benedictus 14:00.
Agnus Dei 22:19.
The Tallis Scholars,
directed by Peter Phillips.
The PĂ©russis Altarpiece (1480).
Available on YouTube at

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