Josquin Desprez : Missa De beata


Missa De beata
Song Name Arranger Composer
Missa De beata Peter Uruhart Joaquin Desprez
Kyrie 1 Peter Uruhart Joaquin Desprez
Christe Peter Uruhart Joaquin Desprez
Kyrie 2 Peter Uruhart Joaquin Desprez
Et in terra Peter Uruhart Joaquin Desprez
Qui tollis Peter Uruhart Joaquin Desprez
Cum Sancto Peter Uruhart Joaquin Desprez
Credo sections Peter Uruhart Joaquin Desprez
Sanctus Peter Uruhart Joaquin Desprez
Pleni sunt caeli Peter Uruhart Joaquin Desprez
Hosanna Peter Uruhart Joaquin Desprez
Benedictus Peter Uruhart Joaquin Desprez
Agnus Dei 1 Peter Uruhart Joaquin Desprez
Agnus Dei 2 Peter Uruhart Joaquin Desprez
Agnus Dei 3 Peter Uruhart Joaquin Desprez

Missa de Beata Virgine is a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass, by Renaissance composer Josquin des Prez. A late work, probably composed or assembled around 1510, it was the most popular of his masses in the 16th century. The Missa de Beata Virgine is unusual among Josquin's masses in that the first two movements are for four voices, and the last three for five, with the fifth voice derived canonically. Like most musical settings of the mass Ordinary, it is in five sections, or movements. It uses different plainsong chants for each movement, and is a paraphrase mass, one in which the original chants are elaborated, broken up, passed between voices, or sung in different voices simultaneously. The movements differ in their treatment of the source plainchant. The Kyrie has the chant in all voices, imitatively and paraphrased; the Gloria treats the chant as a cantus firmus, migrating it from voice to voice. Tonally, both movements end on G, and most of their cadences are on G or D. The Credo, the first movement for five voices, ends with a surprising Phrygian cadence on E, and uses canonic techniques more prominently than in the preceding movements.
Item Code 9603b
Weight: 5.20 oz |  Number of Pages  116  |  Softcover  |  8 x 11  |  Mixed  |  A Cappella  |  SATB  |  22 - Early Music 14  |  01 Songbook  |  Belguim  |  Early Music Vocal Arrangements  | 
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