XXV. DES PREZ, Josquin (1450/55-1521)
Huc me sydereo/Plangent cum à 5 (?)
The Orlando Consort
(7:06)
Before my Senior Year at Interlochen, I had never heard any music written before Bach's time.
Thus, it was quite a thrill to be introduced to earlier music like Josquin in Music History class.
Imagine! He died 500 years ago, and we can still hear this magnificent music today.
He wrote all kinds of music -- masses of all sorts, motets, and popular and instrumental songs.
Often -- as in this chanson-motet -- he uses a "sacred" cantus firmus in the lowest voice, which the higher voices accompany and imitate. Frequently, the secular texts upon which the cantus was based were particularly bawdy.
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