a quaver for its entire duration, in both cases with the other voices proceeding in a more strict quadruple meter above. Other "games" played in the music include posing puzzles of mode and musica ficta for the performers (e.g. the Kyrie of the Missa Le serviteur plays with the expectations of the very well known plainchant cantus firmus by setting up some knotty issues of the implied possibility of modal inflection with consistent extra flats.) The music is characteristically athletic in all voice parts, with the lower parts in particular featuring much that requires very fine singers, and not representing the normal simply harmonic function of the tenor-bass combinations used by most of his contemporaries. Often a highly elaborate set of quick motifs will spring unexpected from a previous slow-moving texture (e.g. the eruption of detailed duos beginning at Glorificamus te and climaxing at Adoramus te in the Gloria of the Missa in myne zin). His music was very highly regarded in its day, the very distinctive style leading to one contemporary commentator referring to it as "crazy", and another as "sublime". Other Agricolas There are other composers named Agricola who are sometimes confused with Alexander: Martin Agricola (1486–1556; famous mainly as a theorist and teacher) Johannes Agricola (1494–1566), German Protestant reformer and humanist (before 1560-1594) Wolfgang Christoph Agricola (c. 1600 – c. 1659) Johann Paul Agricola (1638 or 1639–1697) Georg Ludwig Agricola (1643–1676; also an important writer) Johann Friedrich Agricola (1720–1774; also a musicographer, organist and singing master) Notes References Edward R. Lerner, "Alexander Agricola." The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. () Honey Meconi, Pierre de la Rue and Musical Life at the Habsburg-Burgundian Court''. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 2003. External links Edition of the instrumental fantasias at Goldberg Stiftung Edition of the songs at Goldberg Stiftung 1450s births 1506 deaths Musicians of the Habsburg Netherlands 15th-century Franco-Flemish composers Musicians from Ghent Renaissance composers 16th-century deaths from plague (disease) Infectious disease deaths in Spain 16th-century Franco-Flemish composers