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• Winner of Honored at the 2013 ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards.

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<br> A masterful and musically insightful exposition of the music of Josquin's early maturity and that of a generation of composers that changed the course of European music. Rodin's writing invites comparison with that of the best music writers of the last century, Cone, Pirrotta, or Tovey. --Alejandro Enrique Planchart, Emeritus Professor of Music, University of California, Santa Barbara<p><br> Josquin's Rome vividly recreates the artistic world of a great composer at a key point in his career, shedding new light on both the title figure and some notable colleagues. No one interested in Renaissance music should miss this book. -Joshua Rifkin, Director, The Bach Ensemble; Professor of Music and Fellow of the University Professors, Boston University<p><br> A book that lovers of Josquin should not miss. Given the momentousness of Josquin's work and ways in which it changed the direction of Western music, it'll be useful and welcome for music lovers more generally. For a comparative approach which successfully encapsulates one crucial essence of the Renaissance, it has wider appeal still. --Classical.net<p><br>

Hearing the music makes Josquins obsessive personality even more immediately appreciable than the dots on the page. But above all, it is Rodins great achievement to have explained it to us and to have put it in the richest of analytical and institutional contexts. Early Music

<br> A masterful and musically insightful exposition of the music of Josquin's early maturity and that of a generation of composers that changed the course of European music. Rodin's writing invites comparison with that of the best music writers of the last century, Cone, Pirrotta, or Tovey. --Alejandro Enrique Planchart, Emeritus Professor of Music, University of California, Santa Barbara<p><br> Josquin's Rome vividly recreates the artistic world of a great composer at a key point in his career, shedding new light on both the title figure and some notable colleagues. No one interested in Renaissance music should miss this book. -Joshua Rifkin, Director, The Bach Ensemble; Professor of Music and Fellow of the University Professors, Boston University<p><br> A book that lovers of Josquin should not miss. Given the momentousness of Josquin's work and ways in which it changed the direction of Western music, it'll be useful and welcome for music lovers more generally. For a comparative approach which successfully encapsulates one crucial essence of the Renaissance, it has wider appeal still. --Classical.net<p><br> Rodin's approach has considerable merit and allows us to see, and to hear, Josquin in a refreshingly new light. He does so with a readable writing style, a generous helping of tables...and almost 90 musical examples. A feature that adds immeasurably to the value and <br>usefulness of the book is that companion recordings of many of the works discussed in the text can be accessed on a dedicated companion website (username and password <br>provided in the book). --Early Music America<p><br>

<br> A masterful and musically insightful exposition of the music of Josquin's early maturity and that of a generation of composers that changed the course of European music. Rodin's writing invites comparison with that of the best music writers of the last century, Cone, Pirrotta, or Tovey. --Alejandro Enrique Planchart, Emeritus Professor of Music, University of California, Santa Barbara<p><br> Josquin's Rome vividly recreates the artistic world of a great composer at a key point in his career, shedding new light on both the title figure and some notable colleagues. No one interested in Renaissance music should miss this book. -Joshua Rifkin, Director, The Bach Ensemble; Professor of Music and Fellow of the University Professors, Boston University<p><br>

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Jesse Rodin is Assistant Professor of Music at Stanford University. He has published widely on music of the Renaissance. In 2010 Rodin received the Noah Greenberg Award in recognition of his work combining scholarship and performance. Rodin directs the Josquin Research Project, a digital humanities team developing tools for accessing and analyzing Renaissance music. Music from his ensemble Cut Circle is available from Musique en Wallonie.

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