Sacred music from Renaissance period

🎵 Missa Gaudeamus - I. Kyrie
🧑 Composer: Josquin des Prez
🎶 Form: Sacred/Mass
🎻 Instrument: Choir
👨 Performer: University of Kansas Collegium Musicum
⌛ Period: Renaissance

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The Missa Gaudeamus is a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass by Franco-Flemish composer Josquin des Prez, probably composed in the early or middle 1480s, and published in 1502. It is based on the gregorian introit Gaudeamus Omnes and its setting is for four voices. The number of sources for this work is relatively high: two printed editions, four reprints and seven manuscripts.

Sacred music is defined as the music written for use in religious ceremonies, for religious motives, or under religious influence. One of the most significant examples of religious music is the Mass, a form of composition that sets to music the invariable portions of the liturgy (Catholic, Anglican, or Lutheran). Masses can be written for choir with or without instrumental accompaniment, with some masses conceived as choral-orchestral concert pieces.

Josquin des Prez
Born: 1455
Died: 27th August 1521
Birthplace: Hainaut (modern-day Belgium), or immediately across the border in modern-day France

Josquin des Prez, often referred to simply as Josquin, was a Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance. He is also known as Josquin Desprez and Latinized as Josquinus Pratensis, alternatively Jodocus Pratensis. He himself spelled his name "Josquin des Prez" in an acrostic in his motet Illibata Dei virgo nutrix. He was the most famous European composer between Guillaume Dufay and Palestrina, and is usually considered to be the central figure of the Franco-Flemish School. Josquin is widely considered by music scholars to be the first master of the high Renaissance style of polyphonic vocal music that was emerging during his lifetime.

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