Clemens non Papa - Peccantem me

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Jacobus Clemens non Papa (also Jacques Clément or Jacob Clemens non Papa) (c. 1510 – 1556) was a Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance based for most of his life in Flanders. He was a prolific composer in many of the current styles, and was especially famous for his polyphonic settings of the psalms in Dutch known as the Souterliedekens.
Unlike many of his contemporaries, Clemens seems never to have traveled to Italy, with the result that Italian influence is absent in his music. He represents the northern European dialect of the Franco-Flemish style.
Clemens was one of the chief representatives of the generation after Josquin and before that of Palestrina and Orlandus Lassus. He was primarily a composer of sacred music; roughly 80 percent of his compositions were sacred music, either for liturgical or private use. Only three of his approximately 233 motets use secular texts; all three are hymns of praise of music. However, he composed over 100 secular works that encompass the whole gamut of poetic genres used by composers of his generation. Considering that his career as a composer lasted for barely two decades, Clemens was an extremely prolific composer. His output includes :
15 masses, including 14 parody masses and a requiem mass (most of which were published from 1555 to 1570 by Petrus Phalesius the Elder in Leuven); two mass sections (a Kyrie and a Credo)
15 Magnificats
c. 233 motets
Just over 100 secular pieces, including: 89 chansons (only 77 of which are considered authentic and are included in the complete edition of his works), 8 Dutch songs, 8 textless pieces, 2 intabulated chansons, and 1 instrumental canon (doubtful)
159 Souterliedekens, i.e., Dutch settings of the psalms, using popular song melodies as cantus firmus.

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