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Born: appr.
1440, Beaurevoir, France
Died: 27 August 1521, Condé-sur-l'Escaut, France
des Préz, Josquin
The greatest of early Renaissance
composers, who renewed and developed composition techniques in his
time, and won great revere. Operated in the forms customary in his era
- masses,
motets
and chansons,
yet unlike his colleagues' sophisticated, somewhat mathematical writing,
he developed a technique of word-pictures (affects).
This methodology allowed him express, in music, the emotion in the song's
words, thus making music an instrument of expressing feelings, a concept
taken for granted in later periods. He is the composer who brought the
Renaissance
to music, after the Middle Ages.
His works, like "Miserere" and the
Mass on "The Armed Man" (Missa
"L'homme Armé") are based on combining sections
from the Bible in order to express profound emotions.
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He Was
a singer
He Lived in the
Renaissance
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