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Contents
- Preface
- Bibliographical abbreviations and manuscript sigla
- Part I Josquin and his cultural environment
- 1 -; Biography
- Josquin's personality
- Josquin's patrons
- Portraits
- 2 -; Josquin in the eyes of his admirers
- Writers
- Poets
- Music theorists
- Music publishers
- Music historians
- Composers
- 3 -; The sources of Josquin's music
- Manuscripts
- Printed editions
- Instrumental arrangements
- Music theory treatises
- 4 -; Issues of authenticity and chronology
- Doubtful works
- Chronology
- 5 -; Gregorian chant as a source of inspiration
- 6 -; Aspects of Josquin's symbolic language
- Cantus prius factus
- Soggetto ostinato
- Special forms of notation
- Mode and musica ficta
- Canon
- Number symbolism
- Part II Josquin's musical legacy
- 7 -; Masses and Mass movements
- Masses based on Gregorian chants
- Masses based on secular monophonic songs
- Masses based on secular polyphonic songs
- Mass based on a sacred polyphonic song
- Masses based on solmisation themes
- Canonic Masses
- Single Mass movements
- 8 -; Motets
- Motets on texts from the Old Testament
- a) Genesis, Samuel, Job, Ecclesiasticus, The Song of Songs
- b) The psalms
- Motets on texts from the New Testament
- Motets on non-biblical texts in honour of Jesus Christ
- Motets on non-biblical texts in honour of the Virgin Mary
- . Antiphons
- . Sequences
- . Hymns
- . The Proper of the Mass
- . Books of Hours
- . Contemporaneous poems
- . Texts of unknown origin
- Motets on other non-biblical texts
- 9 -; Secular works
- Secular works for three and four voices
- . Chansons from the courtly song tradition
- . Chansons from the folk song tradition
- . The Virgil Motets
- . The Frottole
- . Secular works with reconstructed texts
- . Chansons with no known text
- Secular works for five and six voices
- . Chansons from the courtly song tradition
- . Chansons from the folk song tradition
- Instrumental works
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Appendix A New Josquin Edition:
- summary of volumes and editors
- Appendix B List of authentic and doubtful works
- by Josquin
- Index of names