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Josquin Des Prez

Miserere (Josquin)

The Miserere, by Josquin des Prez, is a motet setting of Psalm 51 (Psalm 50 in the Septuagint numbering) for five voices. He composed it while in the employ of Duke Ercole I d'Este in Ferrara, in

*Free scores of this work in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)

References and further reading#

  • Richard Sherr, ed., The Josquin Companion. Oxford, Oxford Univ. Press, 2000.
  • Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954.
  • Patrick Macey: “Josquin des Prez”, Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed November 26, 2006), (subscription access)
  • Patrick Macey, Bonfire Songs: Savonarola’s Musical Legacy. Oxford, Clarendon Press. 1998.
  • Lewis Lockwood, Music in Renaissance Ferrara, 1400-1505. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1984.
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Josquin Des Prez