A Josquin substitution
@article{Rodin2006AJS,
title={A Josquin substitution},
author={Jesse Rodin},
journal={Early Music},
year={2006},
volume={34},
pages={249 - 257}
}The Benedictus of Josquin's famous Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales consists of three duos for bassus, altus and superius voices, respectively ('Benedictus/Qui venit/In nomine Domini'). But in the copy of the mass preserved in a manuscript in the Frankfurt Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek, Josquin's Benedictus has been replaced by a four-voice setting that uses a modified version of Josquin's cantus firmus. This peculiar 'substitution', rare in music of this period, forms part of the… CONTINUE READING
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