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Category:Josquin Desprez.
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Works by genre
Masses
- Missa Ad fugam (4 voices; canonic mass at the 5th below)
- Missa Ave Maris Stella (4 voices, Rome, 1486–1495)
- Missa de Beata Virgine (4-5 voices; 5v sections are canonic)
- Missa Di dadi (=N’aray je jamais) (4 voices; authorship doubted by some scholars)
- Missa Faisant regretz (4 voices)
- Missa Fortuna desperata (4 voices)
- Missa Gaudeamus (4 voices)
- Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariæ (4 voices, 6 in Agnus Dei III, Ferrara, 1503/04)
- Missa La sol fa re mi (4 voices)
- Missa L’ami Baudichon (4 voices)
- Missa L’homme armé sexti toni (4 voices, 6 in Agnus Dei III)
- Missa L’homme armé super voces musicales (4 voices)
- Missa Malheur me bat (4 voices, 6 in Agnus Dei III)
- Missa Mater patris (4 voices; authorship doubted by some scholars)
- Missa Pange lingua (4 voices, Condé, around 1514)
- Missa Sine nomine (4 voices; canonic mass at various intervals, also called “Missa Ad fugam” in some sources)
Doubtful works:
- Missa Allez regretz (4 voices)
- Missa Da pacem (4 voices; probably by Noel Bauldeweyn)
- Missa Une musque de Biscaye (4 voices)
- Missa D’ung aultre amer (4 voices)
Mass fragments
Some of questioned authenticity:
- Credo Chascun me crie (= Des rouges nez)
- Credo De tous biens playne
- Credo Vilayge (II)
- Credo [Quarti toni] (canonic)
- Gloria De beata virgine
- Sanctus De passione
- Sanctus D'ung aultre amer
- Credo Vilayge (I)
- Credo La belle se siet (probably Robert de Févin)
Motets
- Absalon fili mi (4 voices; most likely by Pierre De La Rue)
- Absolve, quaesumus, Domine/Requiem aeternam (6 voices; attribution has been challenged)
- Alma redemptoris mater
- Alma redemptoris mater / Ave regina caelorum
- Ave Christe, immolate, 4vv – Secunda pars, Salve lux mundi
- Ave Maria, gratia plena… benedicta tu (4 voices)
- Ave Maria, gratia plena… Virgo serena (4 voices, Milan 1484/85)
- Ave munda spes, Maria (not in first complete works edition)
- Ave nobilissima creatura
- Ave verum corpus natum
- Benedicta es, caelorum regina
- Christum ducem, qui per crucem (4 voices)
- De profundis clamavi (4 voices; late composition)
- De profundis clamavi (5 voices; late composition)
- De profundis clamavi (4 voices; possibly middle-period composition; alternatively attributed to Nicolas Champion)
- Domine exaudi orationem meam
- Domine, ne in furore tuo (4 voices)
- Domine, non secundum peccata nostra (2–4 voices; for Rome)
- Ecce, tu pulchra es, amica mea
- Factum est autem
- Gaude virgo, mater Christi
- Homo quidam fecit cenam magnam
- Honor, decus, imperium
- Huc me sydereo descendere jussit Olympo (5 voices)
- Illibata Dei virgo nutrix
- In exitu Israel de Aegypto
- In illo tempore assumpsit Jesus duodecim disciplus
- Iniquos odio habui (4 voices, only tenor part survives)
- In principio erat Verbum (4 voices, authenticity has been questioned)
- Inviolata, integra et casta es (5 voices; a version for 12 voices is probably spurious)
- Jubilate Deo omnis terra
- Liber generationis Jesu Christi (4 voices)
- Magnificat quarti toni (attributed to Josquin on stylistic grounds)
- Magnificat tertii toni (attributed to Josquin on stylistic grounds)
- Memor esto verbi tui
- Miserere mei Deus (5 voices; Ferrara, 1503)
- Misericordias Domini in aeternum cantabo (France, 1480/83)
- Missus est Gabriel angelus ad Mariam Virginem
- Mittit ad virginem
- Monstra te esse matrem
- O admirabile commercium (part of a 5-motet cycle)
- O bone et dulcissime Jesu
- O Domine Jesu Christe (part of a Passion setting in 5 sections)
- O virgo prudentissima
- O virgo virginum
- Pater noster, qui es in cælis (Condé, 1505–1521)
- Planxit autem David
- Præter rerum seriem (6 voices)
- Qui edunt me adhuc
- Qui habitat in adiutorio altissimi
- Qui velatus facie fuisti (part of a Passion setting in 6 sections)
- Responsum acceperat Simeon, (6 voices)
- Salve regina (4 voices)
- Salve regina (5 voices, 1502)
- Stabat Mater
- Tu lumen, tu splendor
- Tu solus qui facus mirabilia
- Tulerunt Dominum meum (8 voices)
- Usquequo Domine oblivisceris me (attrib on stylistic grounds; only part survives)
- Ut Phoebi radiis
- Veni, sancte spiritus (doubtful, also attributed to Forestier)
- Victimæ paschali laudes
- Virgo prudentissima
- Virgo salutiferi (Ferrara, 1504/05)
- Vultum tuum deprecabuntur (7-part Passion cycle) (1480s)
Motet-chansons
- A la mort / Monstra te esse matrem
- Fortune destrange plummaige/Pauper sum ego
- O Jesu, fili David
- Que vous madame / In pace in idipsum
Psalms
- De profundis, (4 voices)
- Domine Dominus noster, (5 voices)
- Domine, exaudi orationem mean, (4 voices)
- Domine, ne in furore, (4 voices)
- Dominus regnavit, (4 voices)
Chansons
- A l’heure que je vous
- A l’ombre d’ung buissonet, au matinet (3 voices)
- Adieu mes amours
- Adieu mes amours (6 or 7 voices)
- Baisé moy, ma doulce amye (4 voices)
- Belle, pour l’amour de vous
- Bergerette savoyenne
- Cela sans plus
- Cœurs désolés de toutes nations
- Comment peult avoir joye
- Cueur langoreulx
- De tous biens plaine (3 voices)
- De tous biens plaine (4 voices)
- Douleur me bat
- Du mien amant
- Dulces exuviae
- En non saichant
- En l’ombre d’ung buissonet tout, au long (3 voices)
- En l’ombre d’ung buissonet tout, au long (4 voices)
- Entré je suis en grant pensée (3 voices)
- Entré je suis en grant pensée (4 voices)
- Fama malum
- Faulte d’argent
- Fors seulement (only one of six voice parts survives)
- Fortuna d’un gran tempo
- Helas madame
- Ile fantazies de Joskin
- Incessament livré suis à martire
- Je me complains
- Je n’ose plus
- Je ris et si ay larme
- Je sey bien dire
- La belle se siet
- La Bernardina
- La plus de plus
- Le villain [jaloux]
- Ma bouche rit et mon cueur pleure
- Mille Regretz (4 voices)
- Mon mary m'a diffamée
- N'esse pas ung grant desplaisir
- Nymphes des bois (written for the death of Johannes Ockeghem)
- Nymphes, nappés / Circumdederunt me
- Parfons regretz
- Petite camusette
- Plaine de dueil
- Plus n'estes ma maistresse
- Plus nulz regretz (written between 1508 and 1511, commemorating the 1507 Treaty of Calais);
- Plusieurs regretz
- Pour souhaitter
- Quant je vous voye
- Qui belles amours a
- Recordans de my signora
- Regretz sans fin
- Se congié prens
- Si j'ay perdu mon amy (3 voices)
- Si j'ay perdu mon amy (4 voices)
- Tant vous aimme Bergeronette
- Tenz moy en voz bras
- Une mousque de Biscaye
- Vive le roy (instrumental piece, written for Louis XII)
- Vous l'arez, s'il vous plaist
- Vous ne l'arez pas
- textless (4 voices)
Frottole
- El Grillo
- In te Domine speravi per trovar pietà
- Scaramella va alla guerra
Canon
- Canon from Glareanus' Dodecachordon of 1547
References