Josquin des Prez "Qui habitat"

Josquin des Prez (c. 1450 to 1455 August 27, 1521), often referred to simply as Josquin, was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He is also known as Josquin Desprez, a French rendering of Dutch "Josken van de Velde", diminutive of "Joseph van de Velde" ("of the fields"), and Latinized as Josquinus Pratensis, alternatively Jodocus Pratensis. He was the most famous European composer between Guillaume Dufay and Palestrina, and is usually considered to be the central figure of the Franco-Flemish School. Josquin is widely considered by music scholars to be the first master of the high Renaissance style of polyphonic vocal music that was emerging during his life

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"Qui habitat"
Original text and translations may be found at Psalm 91.. The text set by Josquin is the first eight verses of the Latin Vulgate (which is numbered as Psalm 90).

Latin text
Psalmus 90, 18 (Vulgate)

90:1 Qui habitat in adjutorio Altissimi, in protectione Dei cæli commorabitur. 2 Dicet Domino: Susceptor meus es tu et refugium meum; Deus meus, sperabo in eum. 3 Quoniam ipse liberavit me de laqueo venantium, et a verbo aspero. 4 Scapulis suis obumbrabit tibi, et sub pennis ejus sperabis. 5 Scuto circumdabit te veritas ejus: non timebis a timore nocturno; 6 a sagitta volante in die, a negotio perambulante in tenebris, ab incursu, et dæmonio meridiano. 7 Cadent a latere tuo mille, et decem millia a dextris tuis; ad te autem non appropinquabit. 8 Verumtamen oculis tuis considerabis et retributionem peccatorum videbis.

English translation
Psalm 91, 18 (King James Version)

91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. 3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. 4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; 6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. 7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. 8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

Performed : Huelgas Ensemble
Dir : Paul Van Nevel

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Image : The Creation of Adam

The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is one of the most renowned artworks of the High Renaissance. The ceiling is that of the large Sistine Chapel built within the Vatican by Pope Sixtus IV, begun in 1477 and finished by 1480. The chapel is the Papal Chapel within the Vatican, and is the location for Papal Conclaves and many important services.

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[ThunderFarts420]

they should do this in church now instead of the terrible contemporary trash.

[paulmcguineapig1]

Im an athiest, but music like this makes me wonder...

[MrDizzyvonclutch]

@agroppe Thank you for information, i need more brain power to be a researcher. I really like Michelangelo for that! I am sure he wouldn't do that if that pope wasn't such a stuppid asshole satanic hypocrit!

[agroppe]

@MrDizzyvonclutch, way above the altar in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo painted a very largely naked Jonah with a very pronounced phalanges (insinuating that at any moment, 'ol Jonah was gonna urinate on the old warrior Pope Julius II, the "holy father" who commissioned him to paint the chapel. Not surprisingly, Jonah was deemed to immodest for ecclesial tastes and his junk was covered up.

[NicenEasyuk]

@paulmcguineapig1 It makes me wonder too.

[MrDizzyvonclutch]

hEY, can anybody tell me the secrets of Michelangelo's vatican art that spits in the popes' face for being such an arogant asshole?

[baroqueman1]

The ''reformers'' of Vatican 2 from the late 1960s onwards threw nearly all of this beautiful music that transcends the banalities of ''modern church'' and makes us all think that perhaps there may be some sort of sphere beyond our human understanding. Guitars and trendy clerics too often suppress any such concepts if one goes to a typical happy clappy Mass, especially when the emphasis is on individuals and not elevating the mind and spirit beyond this world. No wonder that I am agnostic!

[cdphatty]

man....that took me to heaven

[ltolleyyyy]

@martiriobaby I just love the expression in his username

[martiriobaby]

@ThunderFarts420

Contemporary terrible church trash...love the expression!

[1LaOriental]

Indescribably beautiful...I love Josquin. It's no wonder why Martin Luther called

him The Master of the notes". Thanks for posting!!!