Missa Pange lingua

Missa Pange lingua

The Missa Pange lingua is a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass by Franco-Flemish composer Josquin des Prez, probably dating from around 1515, near the end of his life. Most likely his last mass, it is an extended fantasia on the Pange Lingua hymn, and is one of Josquin's most famous mass settings.

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Background

The Missa Pange lingua is considered to be Josquin's last mass.[1] It was not available to Ottaviano Petrucci for his 1514 collection of Josquin's masses, the third and last of the set; additionally, the mass contains references to other late works such as the Missa de Beata Virgine and the Missa Sine nomine. It was not formally published until 1539 (by Hans Ott, in Nuremberg), although manuscript sources dating from Josquin's lifetime contain the work.[2] Famous copyist Pierre Alamire included this mass at the beginning of one of his two compilations of masses by Josquin.[3]

Style

The hymn on which the mass is based is the famous Pange Lingua gloriosi, by Thomas Aquinas, which is used for the Vespers of Corpus Christi, and which is also sung during the veneration of the Blessed Sacrament.[4] The mass is one of only four that Josquin based on plainsong, and the last (the others are the Missa Gaudeamus, a relatively early work, the Missa Ave maris stella, and the Missa de Beata Virgine; all of them involve, in some way, praise of the Virgin Mary).[5] The hymn, in the Phrygian mode, is in six phrases, of 10, 10, 8, 8, 8, and 9 notes respectively; the six musical phrases correspond to the six lines of the hymn. Josquin's work is tightly organized, with almost all of the melodic material drawn from the source hymn, and from a few subsidiary motives which appear near the beginning of the mass. As such, the Missa Pange lingua is considered to be one of the finest examples of a paraphrase mass.[6]

Like most musical settings of the mass Ordinary, it is in five parts:

  1. Kyrie
  2. Gloria
  3. Credo
  4. Sanctus
  5. Agnus Dei

Most of the movements begin with literal quotations from the Pange lingua hymn, but the entire tune does not appear until near the end, in the last section of the Agnus Dei, when the superius (the highest voice) sings it in its entirety, in long notes, as though Josquin were switching back to the cantus-firmus style of the middle 15th century. The 1539 publisher even added the hymn's text under the notes at this point.[7]

Josquin uses imitation frequently in the mass, and also pairs voices; indeed there are many passages with only two voices singing, providing contrast to the fuller textures surrounding them. While the movements begin with quotations from the original, as the movements progress Josquin treats the Pange lingua tune so freely that only hints of it are heard.[8] Several passages in homophony are striking, and no more so than the setting of "et incarnatus est" in the Credo: here the text, "...he became incarnate by the Holy Ghost from the Virgin Mary..." is set to the complete melody from the original hymn which contains the words "sing, O my tongue, of the mystery of the divine body."[9]

Rather than being a summation of his previous techniques, as can be seen in the last works of Dufay, Josquin's mass synthesizes several contrapuntal trends from the late 15th and early 16th centuries into a new kind of style, one which was to become the predominant compositional manner in of the Franco-Flemish composers in the first half of the 16th century.[3][10]

Influence

Building on Josquin's fugal treatment of the Pange Lingua hymn's third line in the Kyrie of the Missa Pange Lingua, the "Do-Re-Fa-Mi-Re-Do"-theme became one of the most famous in music history. Simon Lohet[11], Michelangelo Rossi[12], François Roberday[13], Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer[14], Johann Jakob Froberger[15][16], Johann Kaspar Kerll[17], Johann Sebastian Bach[18], Johann Fux wrote fugues on it, and the latter's extensive elaborations in the Gradus ad Parnassum[19] made it known to every aspiring composer - among them Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who used its first four notes as the fugal subject for the last movement of his Symphony #41, the Jupiter Symphony.[20]

References

  • Jeremy Noble: "Josquin des Prez", 12, Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed March 25, 2007), (subscription access)
  • Alejandro Enrique Planchart, "Masses on Plainsong Cantus Firmi", in Robert Sherr, ed., The Josquin Companion. Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-19-816335-5
  • Harold Gleason and Warren Becker, Music in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Music Literature Outlines Series I). Bloomington, Indiana. Frangipani Press, 1986. ISBN 089917034X
  • Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954. ISBN 0-393-09530-4
  • Gustave Reese (biography) and Jeremy Noble (works), "Josquin Desprez," Howard Mayer Brown, "Mass", in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. ISBN 1-56159-174-2
  • Siegbert Rampe: Preface to "Froberger, New Edition of the Complete Works I", Kassel etc. 2002, p. XX and XLI (FbWV 202).
  • William Klenz: Per Aspera ad Astra, or The Stairway to Jupiter; The Music Review Vol. 30 Nr. 3, August 1969, pp.169-210.

Notes

  1. ^ Planchart, p. 130
  2. ^ Planchart, p.132.
  3. ^ a b Noble, Grove
  4. ^ Planchart, p.132
  5. ^ Planchart, p. 91
  6. ^ Gleason, p.xx
  7. ^ Planchart, p. 149
  8. ^ Reese, p. 244
  9. ^ Planchart, p. 142
  10. ^ Planchart, p. 150
  11. ^ Fuga Undecima, CEKM 25, p.23
  12. ^ Versetto quinto tono II, CEKM 15, p. 51
  13. ^ Fugue 12me., Heugel LP 44 p. 68
  14. ^ Fuga E from Ariadne Musica
  15. ^ FbWV 202, FbWV 404
  16. ^ Rampe
  17. ^ Canzona 4, DM 1204 p. 12
  18. ^ BWV 878
  19. ^ Mizler translation, tables XXIII, XXIV, XXVII, XXIX, XXX
  20. ^ Klenz p. 169: "Well known to students of counterpoint as an imposed cantus firmus, this sequence of notes is one of the most gnomic groupings of tones ever devised by Western music".

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