Clemens non Papa -- don't look for his name under "P," but under "C." "non Papa" is not a surname, it is the way his contemporaries referred to him to distinguish him from the other well known "Clement" of his day -- Pope Clement VII. One good way to remember it is to slip it into a familiar Mario Lanza aria, "O Mein Papa," like so -- "Clemens non Papa -- to me, he's simply not the Pope..."Although the Dutch composer was a figure of sufficient stature in the sixteenth century to require distinction from the chief resident ...
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Clemens non Papa -- don't look for his name under "P," but under "C." "non Papa" is not a surname, it is the way his contemporaries referred to him to distinguish him from the other well known "Clement" of his day -- Pope Clement VII. One good way to remember it is to slip it into a familiar Mario Lanza aria, "O Mein Papa," like so -- "Clemens non Papa -- to me, he's simply not the Pope..."Although the Dutch composer was a figure of sufficient stature in the sixteenth century to require distinction from the chief resident of the Holy See, for some reason the music of Jacob Clemens non Papa is almost never recorded. Given the size of his output, including 15 masses, more than 230 motets, nearly 160 psalm settings, and 100 secular ditties, once can imagine it would be hard to determine where to begin. However, in the case of Loft Recordings' Jacob Clemens non Papa: Requiem & Motets, it appears Doug Fullington, leader of the Tudor Choir, has found the way in. The Requiem mass of Clemens forms the...
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