La Messe de Nostre Dame

Album by Guillaume de Machaut & Clemencic Consort & René Clemencic

La Messe de Nostre Dame is a polyphonic Mass by the medieval composer Guillaume de Machaut, composed around 1360–1365. The work exemplifies four-part medieval polyphony and presents a unified setting of the Mass Ordinary, representing a significant development in the organisation of sacred music and exerting lasting influence on subsequent polyphonic liturgical composition.
First released: 2001

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Virelai "Quant je suis mis"
    1:22
  2. 2.
    Chancon d'amour
    5:37
  3. 3.
    Virelai "Dame a qui m'ottri"
    2:17
  4. 4.
    Beggar's song from Burgundy: "C'est Guignolot de St. Lazo"
    2:58
  5. 5.
    Virelai "Dou mal"
    1:41
  6. 6.
    Codex Faenza (c. 1400): Kyrie
    1:28
  7. 7.
    Freiburger Augustinerbrevier (14th century): St. Mary's hymn "Ave maris stella"
    1:51
  8. 8.
    Conductus "Ave gloriosa"
    1:11
  9. 9.
    La Messe de Notre Dame: Kyrie Eleison
    5:41
  10. 10.
    La Messe de Notre Dame: Gloria in Excelsis
    4:16
  11. 11.
    "Du tres douz non a la virge Marie"
    5:50
  12. 12.
    St. Mary's hymn "Ave virgo regia"
    1:51
  13. 13.
    La Messe de Notre Dame: Credo in unum Deum
    6:11
  14. 14.
    Chorale hymn "Ave Regina"
    1:14
  15. 15.
    St. Mary's hymn "Verbum bonum et suave"
    2:18
  16. 16.
    Virelai "Dame, vosre doulz viaire"
    6:00
  17. 17.
    Intabulated motet "Adesto"
    1:51
  18. 18.
    La Messe de Notre Dame: Sanctus
    4:03
  19. 19.
    Codex Faenza (c. 1400): Sangilio
    1:14
  20. 20.
    La Messe de Notre Dame: Agnus Dei
    3:30
  21. 21.
    "Agniaus dous", "Ave maris"
    3:55
  22. 22.
    St. Mary's hymn, Limoges (c. 1200): "Ave nobilis"
    0:53
  23. 23.
    "Astra polorum"
    1:19
  24. 24.
    La Messe de Notre Dame: Ite missa est
    1:06

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