Josquin des Prez (French: [ʒɔskɛ̃ depʁe]; c. 1450/1455 – 27 August 1521), often referred to simply as Josquin, was a French[2] composer of the Renaissance. His original name is sometimes given as Josquin Lebloitte and his later name is given under a wide variety of spellings in French, Italian, and Latin, including Iosquinus Pratensis and Iodocus a Prato. His motet Illibata Dei virgo nutrix includes an acrostic of his name, where he spelled it "Josquin des Prez".[3][4] He was the most famous European composer between Guillaume Dufay and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and is usually considered to be the central figure of the Franco-Flemish School. 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.
During the 16th century, Josquin gradually acquired the reputation as the greatest composer of the age, his mastery of technique and expression universally imitated and admired. Writers as diverse as Baldassare Castiglione and Martin Luther wrote about his reputation and fame, with Luther declaring that "he is the master of the notes. They must do as he wills; as for the other composers, they have to do as the notes will." Theorists such as Heinrich Glarean and Gioseffo Zarlino held his style as that best representing perfection. He was so admired that many anonymous compositions were attributed to him by copyists, probably to increase their sales. More than 370 works are attributed to him;[8] it was only after the advent of modern analytical scholarship that some of these attributions were challenged, and revealed as mistaken, on the basis of stylistic features and manuscript evidence. Yet in spite of Josquin's colossal reputation, which endured until the beginning of the Baroque era and was revived in the 20th century, his biography is shadowy, and virtually nothing is known about his personality. The only surviving work which may be in his own hand is a graffito on the wall of the Sistine Chapel, and only one contemporary mention of his character is known, in a letter to Duke Ercole I of Ferrara. The lives of dozens of less revered Renaissance composers are better documented than that of Josquin.
Josquin wrote both sacred and secular music, and in all of the significant vocal forms of the age, including masses, motets, chansons and frottole. During the 16th century, he was praised for both his supreme melodic gift and his use of ingenious technical devices. In modern times, scholars have attempted to ascertain the basic details of his biography, and have tried to define the key characteristics of his style to correct misattributions, a task that has proved difficult, as Josquin liked to solve compositional problems in different ways in successive compositions—sometimes he wrote in an austere style devoid of ornamentation, and at other times he wrote music requiring considerable virtuosity.[10] Heinrich Glarean wrote in 1547 that Josquin was not only a "magnificent virtuoso" (the Latin can be translated also as "show-off") but capable of being a "mocker", using satire effectively.[11] While the focus of scholarship in recent years has been to remove music from the "Josquin canon" (including some of his most famous pieces) and to reattribute it to his contemporaries, the remaining music represents some of the most famous and enduring of the Renaissance.
Vocal Ensemble Capella (Vocal Ensemble Cappella) is a Japanese vocal ensemble that specializes in Renaissance music. It was established by Tetsuro Hanai in 1997, and has been performing under the current name since 1998. The main repertoire is Gregorian chant and religious music from the Flemish musicians of the Renaissance period.
Regular concerts are held in liturgical form mainly for the 15th and 16th century Flemish musicians about 3 programs a year. According to the idea of Tetsuro Hanai, who is a music director, that a religious song is able to make the best use of it when it is played within the intended liturgical framework, even a regular concert is called a church. It takes the form of a mass and a late lesson in the field, and forms a program that mixes polygonia music with Gregorian chant and Bible recitation in Latin. The performances use the original notation by metric notation written in the 15th and 16th centuries, and Latin pronunciation is also performed by many Flemish singers in a manner that is presumed to be such.
Participated in the Antwerp Music Festival (Belgium) in 2002 and the Les Journées du Chant Grégorien Music Festival (Luxembourg) in 2007. It is used for the theme song of OTTAVA, Japan's first classical music digital radio station in 2007. From 2009, he started recording Josqué des Prés's Masses (Reguls Label). After the death of Josquén des Pres in 2021 he aims to play all songs of the religious works of Jossac des Pres, said to be the greatest genius of the Renaissance by 500.
Naomi Hanai is an Old-time Western singers acting in medieval, renaissance and baroque music. A thousand years chanson also sings from the Middle Ages to the present. Sometimes also Turkish and Arab folk music.
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