2 Its redaction makes clear that additional remarks and rewritings, as added by the copyists in their various exemplars, were not brought into line with each other. (-) - !N/!N/!N - 116 - MP3 - Stenov, Kyrie - Christe - Kyrie Benedictus 0.0/10 6 Description: For information, refer to the Mass page. 6 Wikimedia Commons Most likely his last mass, it is an extended fantasia on the Pange Lingua hymn, and is one of Josquin's most famous mass settings. The preferred date of composition has been after 1514, which was the year of Petruccis last book of Josquins masses, where it doesnt appear. Gloria - [04:38] 03. The Missa Pange lingua is a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass by Franco-Flemish composer Josquin des Prez, probably dating from around 1515, near the end of his life. Most likely his last mass, it is an extended fantasia on the Pange Lingua hymn, and is one of Josquin's most famous mass settings. With the Missa Pange lingua we finally come to a setting which has united rather than divided its commentators. (-)- !N/!N/!N - 476 - Michrond, PDF typeset by arranger 6 In other Hosannas (Ave maris stella, Malheur me bat) he swopped between them quickly, or even had them both going at the same time; but here the sections are substantial and demarked. Composing For The Pope: A Church Music Primer. 2 Like Josquin, he began with the cantus firmus technique, and continued to use it for most of his life; but he began to elaborate the source material, eventually integrating it into multiple voices of a polyphonic texture where all the voices had equal weight. Ambrosiana, Ms E. 46 Inf. The Mass takes its name from the Corpus Christi hymn Pange lingua of St. Thomas Aquinas. In VienNB 4809 most of the under-third cadences are suppressed, and several unpractical rhythmic substitutions as well as other unique readings have been introduced. When on the society site, please use the credentials provided by that society. The Missa Pange lingua is considered to be Josquin's last mass. 10 Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for CDGIM009 JOSQUIN DES PRS Missa Pange Lingua Missa La Sol Fa Re Mi CD Europ at the best online prices at eBay! Learn New. 10 (-)- !N/!N/!N - 1763 - Reccmo, Engraving files (MusiXTeX) The elegant motto openings of each major movement stem from the hymn's first phrase. But in Josquin (and his close contemporary Obrecht) the so-called "Netherlandish" style of the High Renaissance reached an early plateau. (-)- !N/!N/!N - 12195 - Pgfeller, PDF typeset by editor Josquin's moments of greatest compositional reserve, such as the stillness of "Et incarnatus est," or the bare canonic structure which opens the Benedictus, do not represent emotional withdrawal, but rather a greater serenity, on the one hand, and a feeling of expectancy, on the other. This difference really does help to define this piecein all the other masses, even the late ones, these parts peak on the same note or within a note of each other. 6 *#622065 - 0.20MB, 3 pp. <Missa Pange lingua is also available on <hyperion:link album="CDGIM207">Renaissance Giants</hyperion:link>.</p> [1] As a specific example of early 16th-century The simple summary is this: Josquin des Prez's final mass, the Missa Pange lingua, feels like a culmination, and a conscious one at that.Written around 1515 and published after the composer's death in 1521, the mass dates from Josquin's residency at Cond-sur-l'Escaut, a commune in northern France where he spent the final 17 years of his life as a church provost. With their recording of Missa Pange lingua in 1986, Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars began one of the most ambitious projects in recording history. This is the kind of simplicity that can inspire a composer who has tried it all. 6 For these sections, text may have been added later by copyists from the scriptorium. - Pange lingua, gloriosi, WAB33 - [05:48] 11. Access to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. F, d. 2 Jena, Thringer Universitts- und Landesbibliothek, MS 21, Vienna, sterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Handschriftensammlung, Ms 4809, Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musiksammlung, Musica MS 510, Leipzig, Universittsbibliothek, MSS Thomaskirche 49/50, Regensburg, Bischfliche Zentralbibliothek, MS C100, Rostock, Bibliothek der Wilhelm-Pieck-Universitt, MS Saec. In the Gloria, for example, at the text "Qui tollis peccata mundi," Josquin thins out the texture to a severe canon, which stands out from the preceding moments. All voices are given equal weight, and the score achieves a motivic unity which was a significant change from previous practice. One of the earliest readings of the complete mass seems to be preserved in the Vatican choirbook MS Cappella Sistina 16, copied in Rome around 1515-1516 by Claudius Gellandi for use by/in the Cappella Sistina. [5] The hymn, in the Phrygian mode, is in six musical phrases, of 10, 10, 8, 8, 8, and 9 notes respectively, corresponding to the six lines of the hymn. 8 3/18), and the incorporation of melodic lines that clearly demand for a b-flat fa super la, invite more careful exploration of the setting, in order to locate these isolated escapes from the Phrygian hemisphere. 10 7 Apart from a few mistakes and some alternative cadential formulas, it delivers a reading of the Mass which, in principle, is quite in agreement with its reading in VatS16. The institutional subscription may not cover the content that you are trying to access. Agnus Dei, 2. Manuscript 1523in D-Ju MS 21, no. L. Macy (Accessed November 6, 2006), This page was last edited on 15 February 2021, at 04:12. He pioneered chanson and motet b. Most likely his last mass, it is an extended fantasia on the Pange Lingua hymn, and is one of Josquin's most famous mass settings. 4 10 2ndpublished: 1546Nrnberg: Hans Ott Last edited on 15 February 2021, at 04:12, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paraphrase_mass&oldid=1006852821. 0.0/10 Josquin's fame during his lifetime was such that many works were attributed to him that weren't his, making posterity's effort to assess his stature somewhat more difficult. (-)- !N/!N/!N - 163 - Michrond, Trumpet 2 10 It was in this work that Josquin finally made the art of imitation, by which all the voices must be treated as being equal, of primary importance. From about 1516 onwards the 'Alamire' scriptorium in Mechelen started the copying of several isolated fascicles, which around 1520 were assembled into a choirbook, today MS BrusBR IV.922. 6 When on the institution site, please use the credentials provided by your institution. Pgfeller (2015/12/25), I. Kyrie Gloria III. Pange lingua is more like Malheur me bat than Sine nomine, with the modelhere monophonicsubsumed into the prevailing texture with all the sophistication shown in Malheur me bat, and arguably quite a bit more. 2 melody, placed ostentatiously in long notes at the top of the texture. Click the account icon in the top right to: Oxford Academic is home to a wide variety of products. Some of these readings were copied in manuscripts produced in Josquin's lifetime or shortly thereafter; their provenance as well as their readings of the Missa Pange lingua offer a unique insight into the way Josquin's setting may have been transmitted throughout Europe in the first half of the 16th century. 10 Some societies use Oxford Academic personal accounts to provide access to their members. pp. *#47987 - 2.26MB, 25 pp. ensemble and with smaii choir, has RcnsiisssiriCG Pcrforniricc P rscticc Josquin Desprez: Messes - Pange lingua; De beata Virgine, Josquin des Prs: Missa Pange Lingua; Missa La Sol Fa Re Mi, Josquin Desprez: Missa Pange Lingua & Motets, Musica Sacra: Sacred Music through the Ages, The Great History of Belgian and Dutch Classical Music, Josquin: Missa Pange Lingua; Allegri: Missa Vidi turbam magnam. This edition must have functioned as model for the copying of the mass in the MSS Leipzig, Universittsbibliothek, MSS Thomaskirche 49/50, Regensburg, Bischfliche Zentralbibliothek, MS C100 and Rostock, Bibliothek der Wilhelm-Pieck-Universitt, MS Saec. 6 He composed fluently and well in every contemporary genre of music, sacred and secular. 140 is a more easily recognized cantus firmus work, a chorale cantata. The achievements of Flemish artists like Hans Memling would influence the development of Renaissance painting for generations to come. 2 This slow abandonment of the chant as a starting point for the middle movements is also unique. (-)- !N/!N/!N - 1289 - Anastassia Rakitianskaia, PDF typeset by editor PANGE LINGUA- (Latin to english translation) Mario Creado 2.2K subscribers Subscribe 5.2K Share Save 645K views 10 years ago Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium is a hymn written by St. 8 John Dunstable's Gloria is an example of this procedure, as are the two settings by Guillaume Dufay of the Marian Antiphon Alma redemptoris mater. The parody mass , also known as the imitation mass (for the use of the word "parody" implies no satire, but is based on a misreading of a 16th-century source), uses many voices from a polyphonic . This openness of scoring is unhindered by strict canon or clever mathematics of any kind. 3rdpublished: 1929in Das Chorwerk, no. 2 4 If you believe you should have access to that content, please contact your librarian. Moreover, its reading of the mass includes far more copying errors than the other copies of the mass from the scriptorium. editing, a complete list of the manuscripts' contrasting readings has been included in half-step imitation and concluding with a manipulation of the very perception of time through a web of simultaneously sounding rhythmic levels: the now-familiar tune appears in the soprano voice floating at half-speed above the supporting voices, and all voices gradually relax into a languorous imitative mantra of the final prayer "dona nobis pacem: grant us peace." An almost identical reading of the mass in the choirbook Jena, Thringer Universitts- und Landesbibliothek, MS 21, copied in the same scriptorium between 1521 and 1525, makes it highly probably that the readings in BrusBR IV.922 and JenaU 21 may have been copied from twins, originating from the same exemplar, but each with additional annotations which may have slightly differed from each other. A personal account can be used to get email alerts, save searches, purchase content, and activate subscriptions. Stylistically, the Missa Pange Lingua is the summit of Josquin's work in the genre. Paraphrase masses were written relatively infrequently in England and Germany, especially after the Protestant Reformation. *#218221 - 0.03MB, 2 pp. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for The Tallis Scholars : Missa Pange LinguaMissa La Sol Fa Re Mi CD at the best online prices at eBay! Josquin wrote two entirely canonic massesAd fugam, the earlier one, may be his most rigid and mathematically dense composition. The historical portion of this chapter presents material about Josquins artistic status during the Renaissance, including testimonies by Martin Luther, Hans Ott, and Heinrich Glareanus. 8 Ludwig Bhme & Kammerchor Josquin des Prez - Josquin Desprz: Missa Pange Lingua (2011) 17-01-2019, 04:08 Artist: Ludwig Bhme & Kammerchor Josquin des Prez Title: Josquin Desprz: Missa Pange Lingua Year Of Release: 2011 Genre: Classical Quality: FLAC (image + .cue, log, scans) Total Size: 249 MB 4 Access 200+ online courses to boost your progress now. The Missa Pange lingua of Josquin des Prez: The vocal and choral music of the Renaissance provides a great wealth of repertoire for the small mixed choir composed of young and most ly untrained singers. 10 *#575455 - 0.08MB, 9 pp. Album Rating: 5.0Fair point - Blackwater Park review coming up next. Included also is an overview of Josquins Masses, with focus on his final Massthe Missa Pange lingua, composed sometime after 1515 but not published until 1539, after Josquins death. Josquin was heading for the wide open spaces as he concluded his mass career. Two printed (-)- C*/V*/V* - 14202 - ctesibius, PDF scanned by ctesibius [20], Mizler translation, tables XXIII, XXIV, XXVII, XXIX, XXX. If your institution is not listed or you cannot sign in to your institutions website, please contact your librarian or administrator. *#622066 - 0.02MB,? Was it perhaps one of the singers in Cond who (secretly?) For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management. This page was last edited on 11 February 2023, at 00:44. [3] *#572204 - 6.51MB - 7:06 - 8 hide caption. 1986 American Choral Directors Association 8 8 In many of Josquins mass-settings the musical development culminates in the final movementnot unlike a Romantic symphony: the Agnus Dei of Missa Malheur me bat is a magnificent example and one of the greatest tours de force in the repertoire. 0.0/10 - The Kyrie of Mass in G Major begins with a lovely, meditative fugue - a real "throw-back" movement, drawing on the contrapuntal tradition of the . Discover the richness and diversity of the masses through The Tallis Scholars award-winning recordings and essays by their founder and artistic director, Peter Phillips. 10 0.0/10 *#203158 - 0.01MB,? Nonetheless, apart possibly from Mater Patris, we are still referring to Josquins last mass, written when he was over 60. (-) - !N/!N/!N - 117 - MP3 - Stenov, 4. - Constant flow more feasible because of increased variation in rhythm. 6 Notes 4 Enter your library card number to sign in. Their readings also include additional editorial reworkings. A woodcut of Josquin. Introducing MuseScore Learn! During his lifetime, this was the most frequently performed piece that Josquin had ever writtenand it kept fascinating music scholars as far removed from Josquins time as the 18th century. lacks Agnus Dei II; jumps from Agnus Dei I to Agnus Dei III. Josquins shortest mass setting is based on a melody by his revered teacher Johannes Ockeghem and contains a moving musical tribute to the older composer. In addition, Josquin pioneered the techniques of word-painting that played an important role in the music of the late Renaissance. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide, This PDF is available to Subscribers Only. 0.0/10 0.0/10 Muziekgeschiedenis, 2000). Siegbert Rampe: Preface to "Froberger, New Edition of the Complete Works I", Kassel etc. The 1539 publisher even added the hymn's text under the notes at this point. (-)- !N/!N/!N - 130 - Michrond, Trombone 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 132 - MP3 - Stenov, 6. Michrond (2012/5/12), Content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License - And yet, with such complete impregnation of the work by the substance of the chant model, Josquin hardly misses an opportunity to enhance with symbolism and text-painting his presentation of the Mass Ordinary text. 0.0/10 As an additional introduction to this style of setting, the editorial underlay of the Ordinary texts (which sometimes deviates from the setting's edition in the New Josquin Edition) may demonstrate the way in which the composer generated his inspiration. By choosing a model so brief and versatile, Josquin opened up a completely new world of musical referencing. The melody is sung in Latin . Founded in 1959, the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) is a nonprofit music-education organization whose central purpose is to promote excellence in choral music through performance, composition, publication, research, and teaching. An almost identical reading, copied most probably from this source between 1518-1521, is transmitted by the Roman choirbook MS Cappella Giulia XII.2, as well as in some incomplete sets of partbooks in the Vatican Library, MSS Palatini Latini 1980-1981 and 1982, which were copied in Rome before 1523. Josquin treats the "Agnus Dei" supplications as the cycle's clear culmination, and he evokes this prayer with complex subtlety, beginning with a threefold (triune?) 0.0/10 After Pange lingua he finally turned away from this genre and began to concentrate on smaller forms in more than four voices. 4 Sanctus / 5. However, the introduction of a b-flat before the third note of the 'Pange lingua' motive at the start of the Credo (Bassus/Contra, mm. supplied from Paris, Bibliothque nationale, MS lat. Josquins nameless mass is his second entirely canonic setting and shows the fruits of his experience in mathematical writing. Genre: Sacred,Mass, Languages: Greek, Latin 4 basis of melodic lines and points of imitation, Cambrai, Bibliothque municipale, Impr. Composing complex canons was a hallmark of excellence for every 15th-century composer. 4 0.0/10 A CATHOLIC MASS FOR A MEDIEVAL CULT. (-)- !N/!N/!N - 214 - Anastassia Rakitianskaia, IV. The official publication of the American Choral Directors Association is Choral Journal. *#622063 - 0.06MB, 2 pp. The sound-world of this setting is determined by the vocal ranges, which finally come closer to the modern practice of SATB (soprano, alto, tenor, and bass), especially if the music is transposed up a minor third, which it standardly has been in recent decades. XVI C 4, f. 73v (Cambrai antiphoner, c. 1508-1518), Editorially supplied material: Plainchant intonations of Gloria and Credo 10 Missa Lhomme arm super voces musicales contains some of Josquins most complex compositional mathematicsa demonstration of his combinatorial prowess and a true miracle to his contemporaries. 6 *#622064 - 0.20MB, 3 pp. 10 4 pp. Josquin was the greatest composer of the Renaissance, respected and emulated by his contemporaries, and as significant a figure in his own day as Beethoven was in the early 19th century. *#572202 - 2.55MB - 2:47 - (-)- !N/!N/!N - 182 - Anastassia Rakitianskaia, V. Agnus Dei [5] Most of his masses based on hymns are paraphrase masses. Background However, given that by this time Josquin was living back in Cond-sur-lEscaut, a long way from Fossombrone (where Petrucci was), it is quite possible that he wrote the mass earlier than 1514, which Petrucci didnt know. 6 Therefore it looks as if the 'Alamire' scriptorium first obtained a copy of the mass in which the rather highly demanding settings for two soloists were replaced by other settings, and only somewhat later obtained a fair copy of Josquin's original version. All voices are given equal weight, and the score achieves a motivic unity which was a significant change from previous practice. 4 8 2 6 Some societies use Oxford Academic personal accounts to provide access to their members. 8 The third Agnus Dei is one of those crowning glory movements, summing up what has gone before, though this time Josquin did his summing without canon. A prominent biographer confidently calls this the "last Mass composed by Desprez," but no contemporary data can reliably date it. Based on a substantial chant melody, it deploys mathematics in a number of clever, but rewardingly audible ways. 0.0/10 - Derived from a hymn called pange lingua. 4 4 True to its name, Missa La sol fa re mi is based entirely on the notes represented by these five solmization syllables on the medieval scale. 6 pp. In general the Phrygian mode of the setting does not allow strict melodic imitation at the fifth below the final. Agarvin (2020/4/26), Complete Parts Josquin des Prez's masses are works of towering genius, notable for the purity and expressiveness of their musical language. The refrain of a carol. 10 6 XML score data: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus dei. This mass was probably composed near the end of Josquin's life, around 1520. 10 Read Ivan Moody's portrait of the ensemble and their journey with Josquin. And the texture shifts instantly to a contrasting and introspective affect upon the cry "miserere nobis." Since 1981, the group has made more than 40 critically acclaimed recordings on its own record label, Gimell; its 1987 recording of Josquin's Missa Pange Lingua and Missa La Sol Fa Re Mi won Gramophone's coveted Record of the Year. Josquin - Missa Pange lingua & Missa La sol fa re mi. Missa Mater Patris exemplifies Josquins late-in-life, daring simplicity: gone is the dense polyphonic argumentinstead we hear light, open textures delivered with a good deal of wit, even playfulness. The ensemble is widely regarded as the world's finest exponent of Renaissance sacred choral repertoire, its fame resting on a distinctive purity of tone that unfailingly illuminates the complex interweaving lines of polyphony. 0.0/10 100%. Yet one of these twins must have included a rather peculiar anomaly: in BrusBR IV.922 Josquin's rather long and sophisticated two-voice settings of the 'Pleni sunt' and 'Benedictus' are replaced by shorter settings, taken over from the Missa Es hat ein sinn by Mathieu Gascongne. View your signed in personal account and access account management features. - 4 Album Rating: 5.0This is a hard piece to write about because in a lot of ways it feels like the apex of his abilities without doing any one thing especially incredibly, but I gave it the ol' college try anyhow. Here you will find options to view and activate subscriptions, manage institutional settings and access options, access usage statistics, and more. The term burden refers to what? Composers of masses in those regions developed styles independently, and in both areas tended to use variations of the cantus firmus technique. Society member access to a journal is achieved in one of the following ways: Many societies offer single sign-on between the society website and Oxford Academic. Palestrina used paraphrase technique in 31 of his masses, second only to parody, which he used in 51. Stylistically, the Missa Pange Lingua is the summit of Josquin's work in the genre. (-)- !N/!N/!N - 57 - Agarvin, ZIP typeset by editor 10 8 [4], Later in the 16th century, paraphrase remained a common technique for construction of masses, although it was employed far less frequently than was parody technique. 8 4 Performance practices include numbers, types, and placements of singers; meter, tactus, and tempo; text underlay; and musica ficta and music recta. 1.1 Together with MunBS 510 it shares the same variant readings with JenaU 21. - Ideas of Neo-Platonism were becoming popular; it was believed that consonant music could return harmony to the soul. The transmission of Josquin's Missa Pange lingua in BrusBR IV.922 is one of a total of 26 instances, 14 of which present the composition in a complete or nearly complete reading. 0.0/10 Download and print in PDF or MIDI free sheet music for Missa Pange Lingua by Josquin des Prez arranged by saintandr for Tenor, Bass voice, Baritone, Voice (other) (Men's Choir) Browse Learn. This authentication occurs automatically, and it is not possible to sign out of an IP authenticated account. 10 Its free-flowing polyphony, less rigorously canonic than that of his earlier works, is supple, expressive and extraordinarily beautiful, and contributes to a sonority that's unusually rich and luminous. Simon Lohet,[11] Michelangelo Rossi,[12] Franois Roberday,[13] Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer,[14] Johann Jakob Froberger,[15][16] Johann Caspar Kerll,[17] Johann Sebastian Bach,[18] and Johann Fux wrote fugues on it, and the latter's extensive elaborations in the Gradus ad Parnassum[19] made it known to every aspiring composeramong them Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who used its first four notes as the fugal subject for the last movement of his Symphony No. This source-based study reveals how Lutherans selected the Missa Pange lingua for performance over other available masses and adapted it for their liturgical and pedagogical needs. After Pange lingua Josquin finally turned away from the genre and began to concentrate on smaller forms. 4 The ineffable motion of the spirit which results from our auditory experience connects us to this masterpiece across time. Josquin des Prez - Missa Pange Lingua- Kyrie (3:40)- Gloria (7:35)- Credo (7:35)- Sanctus (14:27)- Benedictus (18:44)- Agnus (21:32)Tallis VocalisConducted b. 2 Includes the 'Pangue lingua' hymn as an appendix. Reccmo (2012/4/12), Gloria Michrond (2012/5/12), Complete Score These recordings are also available on the specially priced double album <hyperion:link album="CDGIM206">The Tallis Scholars sing Josquin</hyperion:link>. 6 Probably one of the first mass settings Josquin ever wrote, Missa Une mousse de Biscaye perhaps shows the late-medieval origins of his musical language more clearly than any other of his masses. 6 6 Following successful sign in, you will be returned to Oxford Academic. 1. [1] It was not available to Ottaviano Petrucci for his 1514 collection of Josquin's masses, the third and last of the set; additionally, the mass contains references to other late works such as the Missa de Beata Virgine and the Missa Sine nomine. Anastassia Rakitianskaia (2019/6/3), 4 more: II. the New Josquin Edition Critical Commentary: Masses based on Gregorian chants 0.0/10 Like most musical settings of the mass Ordinary, it is in five parts: Most of the movements begin with literal quotations from the Pange lingua hymn, but the entire tune does not appear until near the end, in the last section of the Agnus Dei, when the superius (the highest voice) sings it in its entirety, in long notes, as though Josquin were switching back to the cantus-firmus style of the middle 15th century. This group of sources from the 'Alamire' scriptorium clearly demonstrates that Josquin himself was not directly involved in the dissemination of his mass by way of the 'Alamire' scriptorium. This album won the Gramophone magazine Record of the Year Award in 1987, the first time an independent label received this prestigious award. Missa Pange lingua It is probably Josquin's last mass settingbut it is definitely one of his best With the Missa Pange lingua we finally come to a setting which has united rather than divided its commentators. Agnus Dei Page visited 40,180 times Powered by MediaWiki 6 Agarvin (2020/4/26), Complete Score Mix - Josquin: Missa Pange lingua - Kyrie Josquin des Prez, Claudio Monteverdi, Orlande de Lassus, and more Bach: Mass in B minor - Kyrie I - Herreweghe pannonia77 377K views 4 years ago. 2 Other. The early Missa Lami Baudichon shows the young composer at the beginning of his career, exploring what he could do with the form. - He composed fluently and well in every contemporary genre of music, sacred and secular. The Choral Journal It sums up some of the things he was striving to perfect in his earlier settings, while advancing his compositional language towards the methods of the mid-16th century. Title: Missa Pange Lingua Composer: Josquin des Prez Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB Genre: Sacred , Mass Languages: Greek, Latin Instruments: A cappella Manuscript 1523 in D-Ju MS 21, no. Josquin Desprez has enjoyed the highest esteem both of his contemporaries (Martin Luther called him the "Master of the Notes"), and of music historians since his day. For texts and translations, see the individual pages: https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Missa_Pange_lingua_(Josquin_des_Prez)&oldid=1686352, Pages using DynamicPageList parser function, Free choir training aids for this work are available at. - "Missa Pange Lingua" is a choral piece composed by Josquin des Prez, a prominent composer of the Renaissance period. 6 8 Through this approach, in imitation in all voices, these clear-cut melodies clearly affirm what has just been stated.