Josquin des Prez
in Music
P ublished online April 2017 .
Article. Subjects: Music; Applied Music; Ethnomusicology; Music Theory and Analysis; Musicology and Music History; Music Education and Pedagogy. 12944 words.
Josquin Lebloitte dit des Prez (b. c. 1450–d. 27 August 1521), known as Josquin des Prez or Josquin, was born in the French-language area of Flanders, what is now northeastern France and...
Prez, Josquin des
in The Oxford Companion to Music
P ublished online January 2011 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Music. 7 words.
Josquin des Prez (<i>died</i> 1521), composer
in Grove Music Online
January 2001; p ublished online January 2001 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Music. 40963 words.
(b ? nr Saint Quentin, c1450–55; d Condé-sur-l’Escaut, 27 Aug 1521 ). French composer. He was one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance, whose reputation stands on a level with those...
Josquin des Prez (<i>b</i>
<i>c.</i>1450)
in The Oxford Companion to Music
P ublished online January 2011 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Music. 1312 words.
The towering composer of the Renaissance, he was profoundly influential on 16th-century music. His biography, which has never been easy
Josquin des Prez, Renaissance Historiography, and the Cultures of Print
in The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music
August 2011; p ublished online September 2012 .
Article. Subjects: Music; Musicology and Music History. 14046 words.
This article studies Josquin des Prez, a musical genius who refused to compose on request and was an individualist who represented the new spirit of humanism. It notes the lack of...
DES PRÉS, Josquin - Miniaturist
in Benezit Dictionary of Artists
January 2006; p ublished online November 2011 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Art; Biographical Studies. 70 words.
French, 15th – 16th century, male.
Miniaturist.
This artist produced the first miniature of the Missel Bavarium, which is preserved in the Wolfenbüttel library. It is...
JOSQUIN’s ROME
in Josquin's Rome
December 2012; p ublished online May 2013 .
Chapter. Subjects: Musicology and Music History. 7566 words.
Why Josquin? And why Rome? The Introduction addresses these questions while situating the Sistine Chapel in a wider culture of artistic patronage and papal politics. It also explains the...
Josquin's Rome
December 2012; p ublished online May 2013 .
Book. Subjects: Musicology and Music History. 400 pages.
In the late 15th century the newly built Sistine Chapel was home to a vigorous culture of musical composition and performance. Josquin des Prez stood at its center, singing and composing...
Josquin, Jan - theorist
in Grove Music Online
January 2001; p ublished online January 2001 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Music. 591 words.
(fl 1561–3). Czech theorist. He matriculated at Wittenberg University on 30 April 1563 under the name of ‘Johannes Josquinus Boleslavensis’. At first thought to be a Frenchman or...
Josquin and the Humanists
in Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century
July 2009; p ublished online July 2010 .
Chapter. Subjects: Pre- and Early Medieval Music (Before 800). 15789 words.
As with Machaut in chapter 9, we are going to take time out, so to speak, and devote a whole chapter to a single composer. This time the close-up will be on Josquin des Prez (d. 1521),...
