Born for the Muses: The Life and Masses of Jacob Obrecht.

Renaissance Quarterly | June 22, 1997| | Copyright

The tendency to single out all-surpassing masters who soar above their commonplace contemporaries has not benefitted the composer Jacob Obrecht, who had the mixed luck of sharing at least part of a lifetime with the celebrated Josquin des Prez. A little acrostic for struggling students of the musically rich Renaissance used to tell of the JAILCOB generation: Josquin, at the lead, followed by Agricola, Isaac, et. al., through Obrecht and Brumel. Josquin still stands at the lead in Reinhard Strohm's magisterial The Rise of European Music: 1380-1500; or, rather, he stands at the ...

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