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Tallis Peter Phillips Tallis Scholars Voces Musicales 1989
Provided to YouTube by TuneCore Josquin: Missa L'homme Armé Sexti Toni - 4c. Hosanna 1 · The Tallis Scholars & Peter Phillips Josquin Des Prez: Missa L'homme Armé Super Voces Musicales & Missa L'homme Armé Sexti Toni ℗ 1989 Gimell Records Released on: 1989-01-01 Auto-generated by YouTube.
The Kyrie of Josquin's remarkable "Missa L'homme armé sexti toni", here played in the tuning of the era, 1/4-comma meantone with its luscious Pure 3rds and 6ths. Performed by Michael Kudirka. Filmed by Scott Knudstrup. Guitar: MicroTone Guitars CL01 Website: (http•••) Facebook: (http•••) Twitter: (http•••) Instagram: (http•••)
Josquin Prés Dufay Ockeghem Morales Palestrina Lockwood Busnois Pietro Aaron Regis Tinctoris Obrecht Brumel Carver Carissimi Petrucci Philip Glass Peter Phillips Sargent Fabre Vary 1500 1502 1523 1980
(http•••) "There were at least thirty-one Mass-settings based on the L’homme armé melody in the Renaissance period. The two by Josquin des Prés were written about half-way through the spectrum, between those of Dufay and Ockeghem on the one hand and the two each by Morales and Palestrina on the other. It is especially valuable to hear the Josquin settings together, since it is assumed that while writing the earlier of them, Super voces musicales, he conceived new compositional challenges which were to be confronted in Sexti toni. There is an extra merit in having a performance of Super voces musicales on disc, since I believe that, on account of its length and the tessitura of its voice parts, a concert performance of it complete would be virtually impossible. The earliest reliable source of the L’homme armé melody is a late-fifteenth-century manuscript in Naples, which contains six anonymous Masses based on the song. The text may be translated, ‘Fear the armed man. Word has gone out that everyone should arm himself with a haubregon1 of iron’, which may refer to a crusade against the Turks (see Lewis Lockwood in Grove, 1980). This Neapolitan version of L’homme armé poses two unresolved problems; whether it was originally a monophonic song or the tenor of a lost three-voice chanson; and whether it originally had any more verses, as the refrain structure rather suggests. Apart from the composers already mentioned, there were Mass-settings founded on L’homme armé by Busnois (who was said, by Pietro Aaron in 1523, to have been the original composer of the song), Regis, Tinctoris, Obrecht, Brumel, Mouton, de Silva, Carver and several others. The series was finally closed in the seventeenth century by Carissimi, who crowned the tradition with a twelve-voice work. At first hearing, the two Josquin L’homme armé Masses are worlds apart. One might guess that Super voces musicales was a medieval composition, and Sexti toni a mature Renaissance one. In fact the manuscript evidence is that they were probably both from Josquin’s so-called ‘middle’ period, which ended around the year 1500, though it is assumed that Super voces musicales was written first. They were both printed by Petrucci in 1502. [...] Josquin’s Mass Sexti toni (‘in the sixth mode’) is so called because he has transposed the melody to make its final note F (as opposed to the more normal G), giving it a major-key tonality. This element of transposition is one of the features borrowed from Super voces musicales, though there, as we have seen, it was turned into a constructional principle. The idea of stating the melody in retrograde has also been transferred from the other Mass, though instead of giving the direct and retrograde forms in consecutive statements as he did before, here in the third Agnus Dei Josquin states them both at the same time. These form the lowest two parts in a movement where the number of voice-parts has been increased from four to six, and the upper voices are in two paired canons at the unison. While this shows exceptional compositional virtuosity, the actual sound in this final Agnus Dei is most unfamiliar, suggesting, if anything, the methods of such modern minimalist composers as Philip Glass. The remainder of the setting seems more relaxed though, in fact, Josquin can be heard to be constantly trying out new speeds, new rhythms and new scorings for the L’homme armé tune, now complete, now with a few notes used as the basis for an ostinato pattern or a canon. The wide overall range of the four voice-parts brings to the writing the kind of sonority which is associated with Palestrina, and Josquin constantly uses this to imaginative effect, nowhere more memorably than at ‘Et resurrexit’ in the Credo. For showing all these different aspects of his extraordinary technique, this Mass must rank as one of the most accomplished productions of a composer long held to be the greatest writer of his time." (Peter Phillips) "Morales, Josquin and the L'Homme Armé tradition", article by Joseph Sargent: (http•••) Josquin Des Préz - Messes De L'Homme Armé (Naïve – E 8809) Maîtrise Des Pays De Loire, A Sei Voci Director: Bernard Fabre-Garrus (http•••) Score editor: Lucio Arese Source score retrieved from the Josquin Research Project (http•••) The syllabification for every voice is largely based on the present rendition by Fabre-Garrus's Maîtrise Des Pays De Loire, as well as the alterations used in the score. They may vary greatly from one execution to another. I. Kyrie Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison.
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