What's in a quote? Josquin's (?) Jubilate Deo, omnis terra reconsidered Jas, Eric

RESUMEN: Jubilate Deo has long been regarded as a work exemplifying Josquin´s late psalm-motet style. More recently, however, doubts have been raised regarding Josquin´s authorship. A fresh examination of the motet and its transmission shows these doubts to be well grounded. A analysis of the motet´s source situation shows Jubilate Deo to be one of the many psalm-motets that first appear in, and owe their ascription to Josquin entirely to mid-16th-century German sources and that the only independent ascrition of the motet to Josquin is found in Petreius´s rather untrusworthy Tomus secundus psalmorum of 1539. While the piece displays characteristics that remind one of authentic psalm-motets by Josquin, it also shows clear traits that cannot easily be reconciled with his style. More importantly, and more decisively in determining the authorship question, are place in the prima pars of Jubilate Deo where imitative entries taken from motets attribute to Josquin seem to have been reused. These borrowings suggest that Jubilate Deo must be ranked among the growing number of imitation.motets: works by minor composers, hard at work learning their craft from the prince of Renaissance composers. Keywords: Josquin de Prez, psalm-motets, imitatio, authenticity