A comprehensive guide for early music lovers and performersJosquin des Prez and His Musical Legacy is the most uptodate contribution to the research on one of the most important and internationally famous composers of the Renaissance. This monograph offers factual information on the composer as well as insights into his 16thcentury and modern reception a survey of the sources of his music and a discussion of the thorny issue of authorship. Willem Elders one of the most distinguished scholars of Josquins music also discusses the influence of Gregorian chant as a source of inspiration and explains the various aspects of Josquins symbolic language. Each individual work including some of those in the old Josquin edition now considered inauthentic receives a short discussion of relevant contextual aspects and interesting musical features. Ranges and lengths are given for each work. The style is adapted to the professional musicologist as well as to the music lover and performer.Includes 45 figures and 90 musical examplesThis publication is GPRClabeled Guaranteed PeerReviewed Content.