Josquin and 'Il n'est plaisir'

For various bizarre reasons Josquin scholarship has overlooked the song Il n'est plaisir and the article by Martin Staehelin that identified it. Assembly of the sources makes it hard to feel con. dent who composed the song: neither the manuscripts that credit it to Isaac nor the one that gives it to Josquin is entirely reliable in its ascriptions. On the other hand there is a stylistic context for the song among the works of both composers. © The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.