Messe de Nostre Dame

Album by Guillaume de Machaut & Graindelavoix & Björn Schmelzer

Messe de Nostre Dame is a 14th-century polyphonic Mass by Guillaume de Machaut, composed around the 1360s. The work uses four-voice polyphony, isorhythmic structures and contrapuntal techniques to form a unified cyclic Mass setting that influenced the development of late medieval and early Renaissance sacred polyphony.
First released: 29th April 2016

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Inviolata genitrix / Felix virgo / Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes
    4:17
  2. 2.
    Introitus: Salve sancta parens
    4:41
  3. 3.
    Messe de Nostre Dame: Kyrie
    10:58
  4. 4.
    Messe de Nostre Dame: Gloria
    6:37
  5. 5.
    Graduale: Benedicta et venerabilis es virgo Maria
    5:44
  6. 6.
    Alleluya: Post partum virgo
    5:17
  7. 7.
    Prosa: Verbum bonum et suave
    4:12
  8. 8.
    Messe de Nostre Dame: Credo
    9:59
  9. 9.
    Plange, regni respublica / Tu qui gregem tuum ducis / Apprehende arma et scutum et exurge
    3:08
  10. 10.
    Messe de Nostre Dame: Sanctus
    5:03
  11. 11.
    Messe de Nostre Dame: Agnus Dei
    3:56
  12. 12.
    Communio: Beata viscera
    7:31
  13. 13.
    Messe de Nostre Dame: Ite missa est
    1:25

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