Composer. A prominent member of the Burgundian School. Although he had a major reputation during his lifetime, almost none of his compositions survive and he is remembered today for reasons rather apart from music. Joye was likely born in Kortrijk, Belgium. In 1449 he became a singer at the Cathedral of St. Donatian in Bruges, which remained his permanent career base. Ordained a priest around 1450, he was appointed a Canon of St. Donatian's three years later and was an honorary rector at Delft from 1465 to 1473. He is the subject of a famous 1472 portrait by the great Flemish Renaissance painter Hans Memling, who he knew in Bruges; the solemn, pious image gives no hint of the man's true personality. The aptly-named Joye did not allow his priestly vows to prevent him from having a good time - church records show he was frequently reprimanded for drunkeness, visiting brothels, missing services, getting into street brawls, and excessive profanity. He adapted two Masses to the tune of "O Rosa Bella", which also happened to be the name of his favorite prostitute, and at one Christmas dinner he presented his fellow priests with obscene songs he had written about each of them. None of this seriously jeapordized his employment at church, probably because of the wide respect he commanded as a musician. Sadly, only five beautiful songs by Joye have come down to us: "Ce qu'on fait a catimini", "Mercy mon dueil jene supplied", "Non pas que je veuille penser", "Poy che crudel Fortuna et rio Distino", and a wordless rondeau for three voices. Like the bulk of his music, Joye's burial site is also lost. St. Donatian's was destroyed by pro-French revolutionaries in the late 1790s.