Josquin, Rome, and a case of mistaken identity

Journal of Musicology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 43-65

  Starr, Pamela F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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EID: 61949252327     PISSN: 02779269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/763903     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Franz Haberl, Die Römische "Schola Cantorum" und die päpstlichen Kapellsänger bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts, Bausteine für Musikgeschichte, III (Leipzig, 1888; repr. Hildesheim, 1971), 54
2. and Starr, "Music and Music Patronage at the Papal Court," 72-75
3. See, for example, Helmuth Osthoff, Josquin Desprez, 2 vols (Tutting, 1962), i, 21-22
4. Sherr, "Papal Chapel," 8-36 (his publication of the complete rosters of papal musicians for 1486-1494), and 65
5. and Jeremy Noble, "New Light on Josquin's Benefices," in Josquin des Prez: Proceedings of the International Josquin Festival-Conference held at The Juilliard School at Lincoln Center in New York City, 21-25 June 1971, ed. Edward E. Lowinsky in collaboration with Bonnie J. Blackburn (London, 1976), 76-78 (hereafter, Proceedings, 1971)
6. For a discussion of the papal bull that was issued in response to this supplication, see Richard Sherr, "Notes on some Papal Documents in Paris," Studi musicali XII (1983). 5-16, esp. 8-9
7. For Josquin's Italian benefice see Edward Lowinsky, "Ascanio Sforza's Life: A Key to Josquin's Biography and an Aid to the Chronology of his Works," in Proceedings 1971, 35-40
8. and Lora Matthews and Paul Merkley, "Josquin Desprez and his Milanese Patrons," Journal of Musicology XII (1994), 434-63, esp. 440-42
9. For his expectative in France, see Françoise Robin "Josquin Des Prez au service de René d'Anjou?," Revue de musicologie LXXI (1985), 180-81
10. Sherr, "Biographical Miscellany," 66, and a private communication to the author
11. See, also, the transcriptions of the roster for these years in Sherr, "Papal Chapel," 29-33
12. Haberl, Römische "Schola Cantorum", 54 and 56
13. For a summary of Stokem's biography, see Quitin, "Stokem, Johannes." Various aspects of his career are touched on in idem, "Les Maîtres de chant de la cathédrale St. Lambert, à Liège aux XVe et XVIe siècles," Revue beige de muskologie VIII (1954), 5-18, esp. 12-16
14. Emile Haraszti, "Les musiciens de Mathias Corvin et de Béatrice d'Aragon," in La musique instrumental de la Renaissance, ed. Jean Jacquot, Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris, 1954), 35-59, esp. 40-41
15. and Frank D'Accone, "Neglected Composers in Florentine Chapels," Viator I (1970), 263-88 at 272
16. and Ronald Woodley, "Johannes Tinctoris: A Review of the Documentary Biographical Evidence," Journal of the American Musicological Society XXXIV (1981), 217-48, esp. 234-36)
17. For the dedication of Tinctoris's treatise, see Karl Weinmann, Johannes Tinctoris (1445-1511) und sein unbekannter Traktat, "De inventione el usus musicae," 2nd ed. (Tutzing, 1961), 27-28
18. On the connection between Stokem's career and the dating of the treatise, see Ronald Woodley, "The Printing and Scope of Tinctoris's Fragmentary Treatise De Inventione et usu musice," Early Music History V (1985), 239-68, esp. 243-44
19. D'Accone, "Neglected Composers," 272
20. Quitin, "Maîtres de chant," 15
21. Quitin, "Stokem, Johannes,"; Albert Seay, "An 'Ave Maris Stella' by Johannes Stochem," Revue beige de musicologie XI (1957), 93-108
22. Osthoff, Josquin Desprez, i, 28
23. Richard Sherr, "Illibata Dei virgo nutrix and Josquin's Roman Style," Journal of the American Musicological Society XLI (1988), 434-64
24. Edgar Sparks, Cantus Firmus in Mass and Motet (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1963), 393
25. Thomas Brothers, "Vestiges of the Isorhythmic Tradition in Mass and Motet, ca. 1450-1475,"
26. Journal of the American Musicological Society XLIV (1991), 1-56, esp. 31-52
27. and most recently, Patrick Macey, "Some Thoughts on Josquin's Illibata Dei virgo nutrix" in From Ciconia to Sweelinck: Donum Natalicium Willem Elders, ed. Eric Jas and Albert Clement, Chloe XXI (Amsterdam, 1995), 111-24
28. Sherr, "Illibata Dei virgo nutrix and Josquin's Style," 443-44
29. Lowinsky, "Ascanio Sforza's Life," 67-68
30. idem, Music in Renaissance Ferrara (Oxford, 1984), 202 and 207
31. and Macey, "Some Thoughts on Josquin's Illibata Dei virgo nutrix."
32. Yves Esquieu, "La musique à la cour provençal du roi René," Provence historique XXXI (1981), 299-312
33. Robin, "Josquin des Prézau servicede René d'Anjou?"
34. Lockwood, "Josquin at Ferrara," 103-37
35. Rifkin, "A Singer Named Josquin"
36. Macey, "Galeazzo Maria Sforza"
37. and idem, "Some Thoughts on Josquin's Illibata Dei Virgo Nutrix."
38. Milan, Archivio di Stato, Registro ducale, no. 103, f. 369r. See Helmut Osthoff, "Josquin Desprez," Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Kassel, 1958), VII, cols. 193-94, for a facsimile of this document
39. Peter Király, "Un séjour de Josquin des Prés a la cour de Hongrie?," Revue de musicologie LXXVIII (1992), 145-50
40. Haraszti, "Les musiciens de Mathias Corvin et de Béatrice d'Aragon," 40-41
41. Haberl, Römische "schola cantorum", 54
42. and Strohm, Rise of European Music, 605
43. idem, "Josquin des Prez and Ascanio Sforza."
44. 1), 163-77. Another of René's singers, Eustachius (or Tassin) de Havresse, entered papal service in July 1482. One is also tempted to fill in the gap in this singer's curriculum vitae with a two-year stint in the French royal chapel
45. Timothy Ferris, Coming of Age in the Milky Way (New York, 1988), 384