List of compositions by Josquin des Prez


The French composer Josquin des Prez wrote masses, motets, chansons, and a handful of instrumental works. Much of his output comprises sacred polyphony.
In recent years the Josquin canon has come into better focus. Ongoing research has made it possible to identify a corpus of approximately 102 securely attributed works, comprising a core group of 54 pieces alongside another 48 that are provisionally attributable. About three dozen works are problematic; another 208, including three lost compositions, are spurious. The total number of pieces somewhere attributed to Josquin is 346.
Before the 1980s the seriousness of the problem was not adequately appreciated, owing to uncertainty about the dating and provenance of many central manuscripts as well as an undeveloped sense of how Josquin's musical style relates to that of his contemporaries and to the generation of composers who came after him. The enormous number of misattributions in the surviving sources reflects Josquin's unprecedented posthumous fame, above all in German-speaking lands. In 1540 the German editor Georg Forster summed up the situation: "I remember a certain eminent man saying that now that Josquin is dead he is putting out more works than when he was alive." The New Josquin Edition, published between 1987 and 2017, classifies as spurious—and therefore does not print—approximately 158 works; the actual number of inauthentic compositions is probably considerably higher. Scores of every piece somewhere attributed to Josquin can be accessed through the .

Masses

For four voices unless otherwise noted
  1. Missa Ave maris stella
  2. Missa D'ung aultre amer
  3. Missa De beata Virgine
  4. Missa Faisant regretz
  5. Missa Fortuna desperata
  6. Missa Gaudeamus
  7. Missa Hercules dux Ferrarie
  8. Missa La sol fa re mi
  9. Missa L'ami Baudichon
  10. Missa L'homme armé sexti toni
  11. Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales
  12. Missa Malheur me bat
  13. Missa Pange lingua
  14. Missa Sine nomine
Doubtful works:
  1. Missa Ad fugam
  2. Missa Allez regrets
  3. Missa Da pacem
  4. Missa Di dadi
  5. Missa Mater patris
  6. Missa Quem dicunt homines
  7. ''Missa Une mousse de Biscaye''

Mass sections

  1. Gloria De beata virgine
  2. Credo De tous biens playne
  3. Sanctus De passione
  4. Sanctus D'ung aultre amer
Doubtful works:
  1. Credo Chascun me crie
  2. Credo Vilayge
  3. Credo Vilayge
  4. Credo ''''

Motets

For four voices unless otherwise noted
  1. Alma redemptoris mater/Ave regina celorum
  2. Ave Maria... benedicta tu
  3. Ave Maria... virgo serena ;
  4. Ave verum corpus
  5. Benedicta es, caelorum regina
  6. Domine, ne in furore tuo
  7. Domine, non secundum peccata nostra
  8. Factum est autem
  9. Gaude virgo, mater Christi
  10. Homo quidam fecit cenam magnam
  11. Honor, decus, imperium
  12. Huc me sydereo descendere jussit Olympo
  13. Illibata Dei virgo nutrix
  14. In exitu Israel de Egypto
  15. In principio erat verbum
  16. Inviolata, integra et casta es Maria
  17. Liber generationis Jesu Christi
  18. Magnificat tertii toni
  19. Memor esto verbi tui
  20. Miserere mei Deus
  21. Missus est Gabriel angelus
  22. Monstra te esse matrem
  23. O admirabile commercium
  24. O domine Jesu Christe
  25. O virgo prudentissima
  26. Pater noster–Ave Maria
  27. Praeter rerum seriem
  28. Qui habitat in adiutorio altissimi
  29. Qui velatus facie fuisti
  30. Salve regina
  31. Salve regina
  32. Stabat mater
  33. Tu solus qui facis mirabilia
  34. Ut Phebi radiis
  35. Victime paschali laudes
  36. Virgo prudentissima
  37. Virgo salutiferi/Ave Maria
  38. Vultum tuum deprecabuntur
Doubtful works :
  1. Absalon, fili mi
  2. Absolve, quaesumus, Domine/Requiem aeternam
  3. Alma redemptoris mater;
  4. Ave munda spes, Maria
  5. Ave nobilissima creatura
  6. De profundis clamavi
  7. Domine exaudi orationem meam
  8. Ecce, tu pulchra es, amica mea
  9. In illo tempore assumpsit Jesus duodecim discipulos
  10. Iniquos odio habui
  11. Jubilate Deo omnis terra
  12. Magnificat quarti toni
  13. Misericordias Domini in aeternum cantabo
  14. Mittit ad virginem
  15. O bone et dulcissime Jesu
  16. O virgo virginum
  17. Planxit autem David
  18. Qui edunt me adhuc
  19. Qui habitat in adiutorio altissimi
  20. Usquequo Domine oblivisceris me
  21. ''Veni, sancte spiritus''

Song–motets

  1. A la mort/Monstra te esse matrem
  2. Ce povre mendiant/Pauper sum ego
  3. Nimphes, nappées/Circumdederunt me
  4. Nymphes des bois
  5. ''Que vous ma dame/In pace in idipsum''

Songs

For four voices unless otherwise noted
  1. A l'ombre d'ung buissonet, au matinet
  2. A l'heure
  3. Adieu mes amours, on m'attent/Adieu mes amours, adieu command
  4. Baisiez moy
  5. Bergerette savoyenne
  6. Cela sans plus
  7. Comment peult aver joye
  8. Cueur langoreulx
  9. Douleur me bat
  10. Du mien amant
  11. En l'ombre d'ung buissonet tout, au long
  12. En l'ombre d'ung buissonet tout, au long
  13. Entré je suis en grant pensée
  14. Entré je suis en grant pensée
  15. Faulte d'argent
  16. Fors seuelement
  17. Incessament livré suis à martire
  18. Je n'ose plus
  19. Je sey bien dire
  20. La plus de plus
  21. Parfons regretz
  22. Petite camusette
  23. Plaine de dueil
  24. Plus nulz regretz ;
  25. Plusieurs regretz
  26. Pour souhaitter
  27. Qui belles amours a
  28. Regretz sans fin
  29. Scaramella va alla guerra
  30. Se congié prens
  31. Si j'ay perdu mon amy
  32. Une mousque de Biscaye;
  33. Vous l'arez, s'il vous plaist
Doubtful works :
  1. Adieu mes amours
  2. Allégez moy
  3. Baisiez moy
  4. Belle, pour l'amour de vous
  5. Dulces exuvie
  6. Fama malum
  7. Fors seulement
  8. Helas madame
  9. Je me complains
  10. Je ne me puis tenir d'aimer
  11. Je ris et si ay larme
  12. La belle se siet
  13. Ma bouche rit et mon cueur pleure
  14. Mille regretz
  15. Mon mary m'a diffamée
  16. N'esse pas ung grant desplaisir
  17. Plus n'estes ma maistresse
  18. Quant je vous voye
  19. Recordans de my signora
  20. Si j'ay perdu mon amy
  21. Tant vous aimme Bergeronette
  22. Tenez moy en voz bras
  23. Vous ne l'arez pas
  24. El Grillo
  25. In te domine speravi
  26. textless

Instrumental or apparently instrumental works

À 3 unless otherwise noted
  1. De tous biens plaine
  2. De tous biens plaine
  3. Fortuna d'un gran tempo
  4. Ile fantazies de Joskin
  5. La Bernardina
  6. Le villain
  7. ''Vive le roy''