Music in the Renaissance
by Gustave Reese
Period: Renaissance
Born: c. 1410 in East Flanders
Died: Saturday, February 6, 1497 in Tours, France
Nation of Origin: Netherlands
Major Works:
13 surviving Mass settings including Missa Quinti Toni,
Missa l'homme armé, and Missa prolationum.
Motets
Secular Chansons
Other Information:
Ockeghem may have been a student of Binchois. He worked in Antwerp,
Bourbon, Cambrai, and Paris. He worked for many different royalty
including 3 French kings. He was a teacher to Josquin des Prez who
wrote an elaborate epitaph upon the death of Ockeghem. His work
conveys the mysticism of the Netherlands while demonstrating the
progressive techniques of imitative counterpoint that would
influence great masters of Renaissance polyphony like
Palestrina.
General Bibliography:
Kennedy, Michael, The Oxford Dictionary of
Music, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 1997, ISBN:
0198691629
Reese, Gustave, Music in the Renaissance, W.W. Norton &
Company; November 1959, ISBN: 0393095304
Sachs, Curt, The Rise of Music in the Ancient World , W. W.
Norton & Company, 1943, ASIN: 0393097188
Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc.,
January 2001, ISBN: 1561592390
Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors,
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group,
December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257
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