Ex. 14-4 is the Hosanna from the Missa Hercules, in which the soggetto cavato dalle vocali (“the
theme carved out of the vowels,”^17 as the Italian theorist Zarlino would later call it) is put through some
basic exercises like transposition (from the natural hexachord up a fifth to the hard hexachord) and
diminution. Fig. 14-3 shows a page from Petrucci’s third carmina collection (Canti C, 1504), containing
another piece based
EX. 14-4 Josquin des Prez, Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae, Hosanna on a soggetto cavato, a little fanfare, almost certainly meant
for a wind band, based on the vowels of the phrase Vive le roy (“Long live the King!”), treating the V, as per Latin usage, as a U
(and the y as an i), thus: