Missa "Hercules Dux Ferrariae"

Album by Josquin des Prez & De Labyrintho

Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae is a mass by Josquin des Prez, composed around 1503–1504. The work employs the soggetto cavato technique to derive its musical material from the dedicatee's name and exemplifies Josquin's mature handling of imitative polyphony, textural contrast and rhythmic articulation, placing it within the key tradition of early 16th-century Renaissance mass composition.