Josquin’s Ecce tu pulchra es sets a Song of Songs text; like the setting of Stabat mater, it displays great tenderness. In this case, the text is a dialogue in which the Old Testament lovers praise each other. This motet was accorded a very prominent place in its original published source, where it appeared at the end of a book of Josquin Masses. Its exact liturgical purpose, if any, is not clear: according to Christian doctrine of the time, the dialogue was interpreted as between Christ and his church, although the composition may also have had a Marian purpose.