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Desprez
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Des·prez  (d-pr), Josquin


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Jacob Obrecht's setting - repetitive, but spiced with urgent cross-rhythms - and the freer, more obviously expressive work by Josquin des Prez were outstandingly dispatched by the 16 singers, framing a brief performance of the original song, its lost words replaced with a new, suitably melancholy French text.
will also include summer-themed music by Benjamin Britten ("Flower Songs"), Leonard Bernstein, Irving Fine and Josquin des Prez.
The latter is a period that covers--a bit generously at each end--what to historians of music not so long ago represented the High Renaissance in our art, epitomized in the career of Josquin des Prez (ca.
 
 
 
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