Josquin in a sentence

Alternatively it has been suggested that Josquin spent some of that time in Hungary, based on a mid-16th-century Roman document describing the Hungarian court in those years, and including Josquin as one of the musicians present.

The male vocal ensemble, based in the Netherlands, specializes in the music of Josquin Desprez and the polyphonists of the 15th and 16th centuries.

According to Glarean's story, it worked: the court applauded, and the king gave Josquin his benefice.

An outbreak of the plague in the summer of 1503 prompted the evacuation of the Duke and his family, as well as two-thirds of the citizens, and Josquin left by April of the next year, possibly also to escape the plague.

Around this time Josquin most likely returned to France, although documented details of his career around the turn of the 16th century are lacking.

A strong influence on Josquin des Prez and the subsequent generation of Netherlanders, Ockeghem was famous throughout Europe Charles VII for his expressive music, although he was equally renowned for his technical prowess.

Because of his immense prestige in the early sixteenth century, many scribes and publishers did not resist the temptation of attributing anonymous or otherwise spurious works to Josquin.

Blackburn, p. 72. Josquin's most famous cantus-firmus masses are the two based on the L'homme armé tune, which was the favorite tune for mass composition of the entire Renaissance.

Both Jean Mouton and Loyset Compère were buried there and it is certainly possible that Josquin acquired his later connections with the French royal chapel through early experiences at Saint-Quentin.

Cantus-firmus masses Prior to Josquin's mature period, the most common technique for writing masses was the cantus firmus, a technique which had been in use already for most of the 15th century.

Departure from Rome; Milan and France Around 1498, Josquin most likely re-entered the service of the Sforza family, on the evidence of a pair of letters between the Gonzaga and Sforza families.

During the last two decades of his life, Josquin's fame spread abroad along with his music.

Ercole, however, chose Josquin.

In 1483 Josquin returned to Condé to claim his inheritance from his aunt and uncle, who may have been killed by the army of Louis XI in May 1478, when they besieged the town, locked the population into the church, and burned them alive.

In either 1483 or 1484, Josquin is known to have been in the service of the Sforza family in Milan.

Influence Josquin's fame lasted throughout the 16th century, and indeed increased for several decades after his death.

It was the technique that Josquin used earliest in his career, with the Missa L'ami Baudichon, possibly his first mass.

Josquin became a choirboy with his friend and colleague the Franco Flemish composer Jean Mouton at Saint-Quentin's royal church, probably around 1460.

Josquin did not stay in Ferrara long.

Josquin is widely considered by music scholars to be the first master of the high Renaissance style of polyphonic vocal music that was emerging during his lifetime.