Das Symbol in der Musik von Josquin des Prez

BY JASON STOESSEL* IN AN ARTICLE WITTILY ENTITLED 'The End of the Ars Subtilior' David Fallows observes that music theorists continue to discuss, and composers occasionally use, notational and stylistic elements associated with the ars subtilior over the course of the fifteenth century. 1 While it is agreed that the years roughly between 1380 and 1415 witness the apogee of the so-called ars subtilior style on either side of the Alps, Fallows argues for the existence of continuities in musical and notational practices, offering up a foil to any attempt to periodize this style. For music historians, this situation is not surprising in the light of later musical parallels like, for example, the final flowering of the North

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Symbol and Ritual in Josquin's Missa Di Dadi

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1989

Journal of the American Musicological Society

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The author examines one of Josquin's earliest cantus firmus Masses, the Missa Di dadi, composed on a tenor drawn from Robert Morton's rondeau, N'aray je jamais mieulx que j'ay. Surviving only in Petrucci's third book of Josquin Masses, the work is distinguished by its use of pictures of dice as proportional canons in the Tenor voice. This study demonstrates that the dice images and the original chanson text associated with the cantus firmus melody form a metaphorical ground plan for the composition, and are linked to contemporary liturgical ritual and to fifteenth-century readings of the Mass text. Musical relationships between Di dadi and the later Missa Pange lingua establish the authenticity of the early work, and illuminate the evolution of Josquin's musical personality and style over some thirty to forty years.

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Das Symbol in der Musik von Josquin des Prez

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