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cadencejubilate has shared a video with you on YouTube: Chanticleer~Josquin Desprez~Ave Maria à 4 Josquin Desprez (c1440~1521) Franco-Flemish composer Josquin Desprez, one of the greatest masters of the Renaissance, lived a life steeped in mystery for present-day scholars. However, the fact that he was well respected by his contemporaries is sure. The great 16th century printer of music, Petrucci, devoted as many as three books to the works of Josquin. No other composer was allotted more than one book by Pettrucci, and publications devoted to a single composer were extremely rare. Josquin's Ave Maria deftly alternates between imitative sections of two, three and four voices, imbuing the work with a sense of intimacy and tenderness. At the final couplet, where the text is in the first person singular for the only time, Josquin chooses a simple chordal setting, giving the effect of the four voices declaming as one, "O Mother of God, remember me"
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