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Machaut 1

Guillaume de Machaut as shown in a French miniature of the fourteenth century, "An allegorical scene in which Nature offers Machaut three of her children - Sense, Rhetoric, and Music."

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The centerpiece of this week's show is the earliest polyphonic mass known to be the work of a single composer: the Messe de Nostre Dame by Guillaume de Machaut, composed circa 1365. The performers are members of Diabolus in Musica. 

  • Introit: Rorate celi de super.
  • Messe de Nostre Dame: Kyrie & Gloria. 
  • Gradual: Qui sedes domine. Alleluia: Ostende nobis domine. Sequence: Ave maria gratia plena.
  • Messe de Nostre Dame: Credo
  • Offertoire: Ave Maria gracia plena.
  • Motet: A vous Vierge/Ad te Virgo/Regnum Mundi (anon.)
  • Preface- Sanctus- Agnus Dei
  • Communion: Ecce Virgo concipiet
  • Ita Missa Est
  • Motet: Rex Karole/Leticie/Virgo Prius (Philippe Royllart)

 

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