Josquin Lecture Cue Cards

Question 1

What is Josquin’s reputation based on?

Answer 1

The “Ave Maria” MOTET composition.

Question 2

What compositional technique is heard at the opening of Josquin’s “Ave Maria”?

Answer 2

Imitation.

Question 3

How does Josquin decide to write a cadence?

Answer 3

He follows the text structure.

Question 4

What is the most important voice in the texture?

Answer 4

No voice dominates over another.

Question 5

What is another name for the “Ave Maria” during the renaissance time?

Answer 5

The motet is also known as the “Monalisa” of Renaissance music.

Question 6

When was the “Ave Maria” copied?

Answer 6

Early in 1485.

Question 7

What is the “Hymn Pange Lingua” based on?

Answer 7

The Eucharist (Bread and Wine).

Question 8

What is Josquins Missa Pange Lingua?

Answer 8

A “Paragraph” Mass

Question 9

What is “Paired Imitation”?

Answer 9

Four-part texture into pairs.

Question 10

What do we know about Josquin’s Chanson?

Answer 10

• Five singer musical ensemble
• Abandoned courtly love
• Chanson is about lack of money
• Not refined at all
• Song was printed and sold to people

Voice imitation and no dominant voice = Equality of structure

Question 11

What do we know about “Mille Regretz”? (1000 regrets)

Answer 11

There is no manuscript that states Josquin wrote the song.

Question 12

What is an Instabulations?

Answer 12

Arrangements of vocal works for a plucked string instrument.

Question 13

What is Josquin’s reputation based off of?

Answer 13

All of his musical works.

Question 14

What stylistic choice in “Ave Maria” is used to highlight important text?

Answer 14

Homophony

Question 15

What does Josquin’s “Ave Maria” honor and what is it devoted to?

Answer 15

• It honors the virgin mary

- Devoted to the Eucharist and the hymn pange lingua.

Question 16

What are some characteristics of Josquin’s Chanson when referring to the voices?

Answer 16

The “Quinta pars” voice was not notated in the sources. SO you have to look at the tenor for that voice and use the melody to sing down a perfect fifth.

• The medium of print and Josquin’s fame.
• Same motives for all of the voices. Bar 44 modified for the opening section.

Question 17

What are some characteristics of Josquin’s “Mille Regretz”?

Answer 17

• Equal structure
• Syllabic
• Suggestion of Text-Painting

Question 18

What are the two principle ways that music can reflect the meaning of words?

Answer 18

Text depiction and Text expression.

Question 19

What is text depiction?

Answer 19

Text depiction means to use musical gestures to reinforce visual images in the text.

Question 20

What is text expression?

Answer 20

Text expression means to convey through music the emotions or overall mood suggested by the text.

Question 21

When Josquin died, how long after his death was his musical works performed and copied?

Answer 21

For almost a century afterward

Question 22

Composers of Josquin’s generation used what…?

Answer 22

strophic texts and four or five-line poems

Question 23

What style did josquins Chansons use?

Answer 23

The clarity in phrasing, form and pitch organization. Fluid and Tuneful melodies. Use of imitation and homophony and careful declamation of the text.