Apr
12
Ungroomed Renaissance: Josquin’s Missa L’ami Baudichon; Songs and Motets
What are we supposed to make of a Renaissance mass whose audible engine is a lewd song? Cut Circle explores this question through the astonishingly ungroomed Missa L’ami Baudichon. The mass anchors a wide-ranging program of sacred and secular music by Josquin des Prez (1450–1521).