by Miguel Ángel Maeztu

&Víctor Luri

Jacob Obrecht at the age of 38.

Index.

-Life. 1. Early childhood 2. First instrument. 3. His parents. 4. His friend Antoine Busnois.

-Works. 1. His music. 2. The cantus firmus. 3. Best work.

Life.(1)-Jacob Obrecht was born in Gante the 22 of November of 1458, and he died in Ferrara the 25 of July of 1505. He was a Flemish composer of the Renaissance.

- The first instrument that Jacob learned to play was the trumpet, because the trumpet was the favourite instrument of his father.

Gante.

Ferrara.

Life.(2)

-He was son of Ghent city trumpeter Willem Obrecht and Lijsbette Gheeraerts.

-His mother died in 1460 at the age of 20, and his father, in 1488 in Ghent.

A trumpeter.

Antoine Busnois.-He was a French composer and poet of the early Renaissance Burgundian School.

- The style of Antoine Busnois was very similar to the style of Jacob Obrecht.

- He was born in 1430, and he died in 1492.

Manuscript of one of his songs.

Works (1)

- Jacob Obrecht wrote mainly sacred music : masses and motets

- His repertoire include some chanson.

- His style is multi-dimensional and also is a fascinating example of the contrapuntal extravagance of the 15th century.

Two of his musical works

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Works (2)

- He used a cantus firmus technique for his masses

- Sometimes he took his source material and divided it up into short phrases

- Other times he used retrograde versions of complete melodies

- In one case he even extracted the component notes and ordered them by note value constructing new melodic material from the reordered sequences of notes.

A cantus firmus

Best work

-The most popular musical work of Jacob Obrecht was: Missa Ave regina celorum

The End