Missa L'homme armé

Missa L'homme armé is a mass setting by the Renaissance composer Josquin des Prez, composed c. 1505. The work employs the popular L'homme armé tune as a cantus firmus and demonstrates Josquin's mature use of imitative polyphony, textural contrast and careful structural organisation, reflecting the period's interest in cantus-firmus technique and contributing to the broader tradition of L'homme armé masses in early 16th-century sacred music.