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| | Sleeve Notes - Josquin des Prez and his contemporaries (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Though it is ascribed to Josquin in two of its three sources, none of these antedates the 1530s, and its full, sumptuous texture, lacking the clearly sectionalised musical architecture generally associated with Josquin, could support a date not much earlier than its first surviving copy. |
 | | Its credentials before that time seemed impeccable: ascribed to Josquin, it was showcased as the first piece in Ott's collection of motets, Novum et insigne opus musicum, published in 1537-8, and, with its brilliant construction around two canons at the fifth, seemed every inch the expression of the better-known composer's legendary contrapuntal brilliance. |
 | | The four-voice De profundis has conflicting attributions to Josquin and 'Champion', presumably one of the brothers Jacques and Nicolas Champion who were employed in the Hapsburg Imperial Chapel in the first third of the sixteenth century. |
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