Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 9700
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Borgerding , Todd M.
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  • Title: Sic ego te dilegebam: Music, Homoeroticism, and the Sacred in Early Modern Europe [The motet "Planxit autem David," sometimes attributed to Josquin Desprez, can be read as expressing, in both text and music, a homosexual relationship between David and Jonathan; this would place the motet in the same context as the homoerotic myth of Ganymede and the depiction of Orpheus by Ovid as turning to the love of young men after his loss of Eurydice; the emphasis upon the name of Jonathan in this composition can be read as supporting such an interpretation; the Appendix presents the Latin text as set by Josquin Desprez along with an English translation].
  • Source: Gender, Sexuality, and Early Music.  Edited by Todd M. Borgerding.  Routledge, 2002.  Pages 249 - 263.
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  • Article Type: Music Score
  • Subject (See Also): David (Biblical Figure) Ganymede (Mythological Figure) Homosexuality in Music Jonathan (Biblical Figure) Josquin Desprez, Composer Music Orpheus (Mythological Figure) Ovid, Ancient Poet- Metamorphoses
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 15
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  • Illustrations: Three Figures. Figure One Josquin Desprez, Music for "Planxit autem David," mm. 13-23. Figure Two Josquin Desprez, Music for "Planxit autem David," mm. 294-313. Figure Three Josquin Desprez, Music for "Planxit autem David," mm. 73-79.
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
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  • Year of Publication: 2002.
  • Language: English;Latin
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0815333943