Machaut - Messe de Notre Dame

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Guillaume de Machaut was an important fourteenth-century French poet and composer. The fourpart Messe de Nostre Dame is historically significant as the earliest example of a complete, stylistically coherent, through-composed setting of the Ordinary of the Mass by a single composer. The setting has close connections with Reims Cathedral and is thought to have been composed in the early 1360s, becoming a memorial mass on the death of Machaut’s brother in 1372. It would most likely have been performed by unaccompanied solo male voices, and the suggested scoring for modern performance is two altos and two tenors or two tenors and two baritones. The five movements of the Mass are followed by a short dismissal, Ite missa est. CLASSIC CHORAL WORKS Astorga Stabat Mater ed. King Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine ed. Rutter Requiem ed. Rutter Handel Four Coronation Anthems ed. Bartlett Messiah ed. Bartlett Haydn The Creation ed. Brown Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo (‘Little Organ Mass’) ed. McCaldin Missa in Tempore Belli (Mass in Time of War) ed. Hulme Nelson Mass (Missa in Angustiis) ed. McCaldin Te Deum for the Empress Marie Therese ed. McCaldin Hummel Mass in B flat ed. Floreen Machaut Messe de Nostre Dame ed. Leech-Wilkinson Monteverdi Vespro della Beata Vergine (‘Vespers’ (1610)) ed. Kurtzman Mozart Mass in C minor ed. Maunder Missa Brevis in D ed. Maunder Requiem ed. Maunder Purcell Te Deum and Jubilate Deo in D ed. King Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle ed. Fleming Verdi Pater Noster ed. Blezzard Vivaldi Gloria ed. Everett 1 ISBN 978-0-19-337397-6 9 780193 373976 Machaut Messe de Nostre Dame 2