LISTENING
Josquin Desprez: Ave Maria
        Score: Anthology #37         CD 4, Track 5            Length: 4:38
        Compared to works by Du Fay or Ockeghem, is imitation used more or less in this piece?
        Know some of the ways Josquin employs imitation in this work.

Josquin Desprez or Pierre de la Rue: Absalon, fili mi
       Score: Anthology #39         CD 4, Track 6            Length: 4:02
       How is the text of this piece put together?
       How is the line "but descend into hell weeping" set by the composer?  How is this setting related to growing interest
                in rhetoric and the growing influence of humanism on music?

OPTIONAL
Josquin Desprez: Miserere mei, Deus
        Score: Anthology #40        CD 4, Track 7            Length: 15:19
        How did Josquin "humanize" music in this work?
        Describe the structural ostinato used in this work.

REVIEW QUESTIONS (Read Chapter 18 carefully, Skim Chapter 20 to help you answer the last two questions below.)
1.  Who were some of the leading composers active between the 1470s and the 1520s?
2.  Why is the turn-of-the-16th-century sometimes referred to the age of "pervading imitation"?
3.  In most of Josquin's pieces, what is the relationship between the different voices?  How is this arrangement different from the ones used by Du Fay and Ockeghem?
4.  What are Josquin and his contemporaries' five or six most important contributions to music history?
5.  When did the printing of music begin?  Why were the earliest printings printed?  Why is Ottaviano dei Petrucci a significant historical figure?  When did the real explosion of music printing occur?  What is the significance of the printing press on the transmission of music?
6.  Atlas states that the "Josquin generation marks a turning point in motet production."  Why does he say this and what is the function of the motet at the turn of the 16th century?
7.  Describe the change in the relationship between music and text that occurred with the emergence of the Josquin generation.  How is this change connected to growing influence of humanism?

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