Cappella Pratensis, Utrecht Early Music Festival, Festival Oude Muziek & Stratton Bull
Josquin -The Imitation Game
Video Director: Concerto Media - Artist: Cappella Pratensis, Utrecht Early Music Festival, Festival Oude Muziek & Stratton Bull - Producer: Concerto Media - Conductor: Stratton Bull - Chorus: Cappella Pratensis - Composer: Nicolas Gombert, Hayne van Ghizeghem, Johannes Ockeghem, Josquin Deprez, Adriaan Willaert, Cipriano de Rore & Antoine Busnoys
Josquin -The Imitation Game
Is citation plagiarism? Not in the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Composers cut, pasted, and conjured with existing melodies and created new works from historical material. The singer-researchers of Cappella Pratensis closely examine Josquin’s ingenious tricks of the trade and place him next to examples and followers like Busnois, Ockeghem, and Willaert.