When was ave maria by josquin written

Virgo serena. Recent blog posts Forum. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Josquin: Ave Maria Edit source History Talk 0. Christmas Music from Eton College. Da Vinci: Music from His Time. Sony Classical. Isaac: Missa pro Maximiliano. Ensemble Hofkapelle. The Tallis Scholars Sing Josquin. The Tallis Scholars. Josquin des Prez: Motetten. Virgin Classics.

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Warner Classics Decca Inviolata: Josquin des Prez Jacob Heringman. Inventa Records INV Ricercar RIC Klanglogo KL Equilibrium EQ La Voce del Violino Exquisite Noyse. Perfect Noise PN ABC Classics Erato Allegri: Miserere Cantillation. What his biography does affect, however, is the way we view the development of the musical style of an individual who was surely one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance some would say the greatest.

Is his beautiful Ave Maria a relatively early work or a mid-career one? An early one, it turns out. Indeed, this motet is Josquin's earliest dateable work, appearing in a manuscript copied about By way of comparison, his motet Miserere mei, Deus Anthology, No. The song is lyrically repetitive, but comes across in a very seamless manner. Throughout the motet, the text treatment is consistently shifting.

It goes from syllabic in some sections to primarily neumatic in others. Occasionally, there are certain phrases that are melismatic but they are not as prominent as the previously mentioned. This is such a beautiful work and it thrives on simplicity and the effortless flow between the different sections. One of my favorite parts about this song is the utilization of pairing between the top two voices and the bottom two voices.

Josquin des Prez created brief homophonic textures with the top two voices and then imitated them with the bottom two voices. It is essentially a marriage of both textures of imitative polyphony and homophony. They are performing at the St.