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
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
provided in the book).
Jesse Rodin is Associate Professor of Music at Stanford University. He is the editor of a volume of L'homme armé masses for the New Josquin Edition (2014) and co-editor of The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music (2015). His articles have appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music & Letters, Acta Musicologica, and other major journals. Current projects include a series of recordings devoted to the songs of Johannes Ockeghem and his contemporaries (Musique en Wallonie) and a monograph on form in fifteenth-century music.