Characteristics of Josquin’s music
- clear phrasing and form
- fluid melodies
- imitation
- homophony
- declamation of text
Did Josquin use form fixes or strophic texts/poems
Strophic texts/poems
Faulte d’argent
- 5 voices
- monophonic
- about having no money
- melody us passed around
- repeats phrases of text, syllabic with some melismas
Mille regrets
- 4 voices
- composed for Emporer Charles 5
- homophony/imitation
- keeps changing combinations of 2/3/4 voices
Ave maria
Motet
- addressed to the virgin mary
- music is made to fit the words
- cadence ends on c
- texture is always changing
- text is declaimed, counterpoint
Missa l’homme armé super voces musicales
Transposed the tune l’homme armé to successive degrees of the scale
Missa hercules duc ferrariae
- honour ercole 1, duke of ferrara
- cantus firmus, each vowel = solmization symbol
paraphrase mass
Polyphonic mass in which each movement is based on the same monophonic melody, normally a chant, which is paraphrased in most or all voices rather than being used as a cantus firmus in one voice.
text depiction
Using musical gestures to reinforce or suggest images in a text, such as rising on the word “ascend.”
text expression
Conveying or suggesting through musical means the emotions expressed in a text.
Are protestant or Catholic Churches more fancy?
Catholic
