Parody mass of Josquin's 6v motet "Preter rerum seriem" (http://elvis.music.mcgill.ca/node/4435) File source: http://www3.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Missa_Praeter_rerum_seriem_a_7_(Cipriano_de_Rore) Note: File is of entire mass Dating based on Grove, s.v. "Rore, Cipriano de": Two extraordinary masses securely date from the period of his tenure in Ferrara (1546–59), probably from the mid-1550s. These are the two masses composed in honour of Duke Ercole: the five-voice Missa Vivat felix Hercules and the seven-voice Missa Praeter rerum seriem. In both masses, de Rore acknowledged his status as maestro di cappella at the court of Ferrara and thus as inheritor of the position held by his great predecessor, Josquin des Prez. He paid double homage to his patron and to Josquin himself, while at the same time, through artistic means, seeking to surpass Josquin... Missa Praeter rerum seriem takes as its model the motet by Josquin, and adds a chant-based cantus firmus, ‘Hercules secundus dux Ferrariae quartus vivit et vivet’. With these masses, revealing his command of traditional compositional techniques that were becoming increasingly irrelevant, he declared himself part of the great tradition of Franco-Flemish polyphony and an astute observer of historical traditions of musical style."