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Josquin Des Prez

Missa de Beata Virgine (Josquin)

The Missa de Beata Virgine is a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass, by Renaissance composer Josquin des Prez. Though formerly believed to have been a late composition on the basis of

References#

  • Jeremy Noble: “Josquin des Prez”, 12, Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed March 25, 2007), (subscription access)
  • Alejandro Enrique Planchart, “Masses on Plainsong Cantus Firmi”, in Robert Sherr, ed., The Josquin Companion. Oxford University Press, 1999.
  • Harold Gleason and Warren Becker, Music in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Music Literature Outlines Series I). Bloomington, Indiana. Frangipani Press, 1986.
  • Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954.
  • Gustave Reese (biography) and Jeremy Noble (works), “Josquin Desprez,” Howard Mayer Brown, “Mass”, in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980.
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Josquin Des Prez