This man exclusively used root position chords in a frottola in which the title character is averred to be different from the other birds in that he does not leave after singing a little. That work, "El Grillo," is often read as a reference to the sexual prowess of a colleague of this man, the papal singer Carlo Grillo. Â A possible student of Johannes Ockeghem, he imitated Ockeghem's contrapuntal style in a work which laments his death, Nymphes des Bois. A notable work of his eschews the traditional cantus firmus format, placing the melody throughout the polyphony instead of just in the tenor, but he may be best know
This man exclusively used root position chords in a frottola in which the title character is averred to be different from the other birds in that he does not leave after singing a little. That work, "El Grillo," is often read as a reference to the sexual prowess of a colleague of this man, the papal singer Carlo Grillo. Â A possible student of Johannes Ockeghem, he imitated Ockeghem's contrapuntal style in a work which laments his death, Nymphes des Bois. A notable work of his eschews the traditional cantus firmus format, placing the melody throughout the polyphony instead of just in the tenor, but he may be best known for (*) two parody masses both based on the same secular tune about a military man who "should be feared". For ten points, identify this Franco-Flemish composer who predated Giovanni Palestrina, and wrote the Missa Pange Lingua and Missa L'homme armÃ©.
This man exclusively used root position chords in a frottola in which the title character is averred to be different from the other birds in that he does not leave after singing a little.
Josquin des Prez [accept either]