Missa L'homme armé
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Over 40 settings of the Ordinary of the Mass
using the tune L'homme armé
survive from the period between 1450 and the end of the 17th century, making the tune the most popular single source from the period on which to base an imitation mass.
Some of the Missae L'homme armé are as follows:
Probably dating from the 1450s:
Probably written before 1475:
Probably written before 1500:
Written after 1500:
Ordinary of the Mass
The ordinary, in Roman Catholic and other Western Christian liturgies, refers to the part of the Eucharist or of the canonical hours that is reasonably constant without regard to the date on which the service is performed...
using the tune L'homme armé
L'homme armé
L'homme armé was a French secular song from the time of the Renaissance. It was the most popular tune used for musical settings of the Ordinary of the Mass: over 40 separate compositions entitled Missa L'homme armé survive from the period....
survive from the period between 1450 and the end of the 17th century, making the tune the most popular single source from the period on which to base an imitation mass.
Some of the Missae L'homme armé are as follows:
Probably dating from the 1450s:
- Missa L'homme armé (Antoine BusnoisAntoine BusnoisAntoine Busnois was a French composer and poet of the early Renaissance Burgundian School. While also noted as a composer of sacred music, such as motets, he was one of the most renowned 15th-century composers of secular chansons...
) - Missa L'homme armé (Guillaume DufayGuillaume DufayGuillaume Dufay was a Franco-Flemish composer of the early Renaissance. As the central figure in the Burgundian School, he was the most famous and influential composer in Europe in the mid-15th century.-Early life:From the evidence of his will, he was probably born in Beersel, in the vicinity of...
) - Missa L'homme armé (Johannes RegisJohannes RegisJohannes Regis was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was a well-known composer at the close of the 15th century, was a principal contributor to the Chigi Codex, and was secretary to Guillaume Dufay.-Life:...
) (two: one lost) - Missa L'homme armé (Johannes OckeghemJohannes OckeghemJohannes Ockeghem was the most famous composer of the Franco-Flemish School in the last half of the 15th century, and is often considered the most...
) - Missa L'homme armé (Guillaume FauguesGuillaume FauguesGuillaume Faugues was a French composer. Very little is known of his life, however a significant representation of his work survives in the form of five mass settings...
) (two)
Probably written before 1475:
- Missa L'homme armé (Johannes TinctorisJohannes TinctorisJohannes Tinctoris was a Flemish composer and music theorist of the Renaissance. He is known to have studied in Orléans, and to have been master of the choir there; he also may have been director of choirboys at Chartres...
) - Missa L'homme armé (Firminus CaronFirminus CaronFirminus Caron was a French composer, and likely a singer, of the Renaissance. While highly successful as a composer and influential, especially on the development of imitative counterpoint, and while numerous compositions of his survive, he is almost unique in there being an almost complete...
) - Missa L'homme armé (Cycle of six masses, from an anonymous manuscript from NaplesNaplesNaples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
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Probably written before 1500:
- Missa L'homme armé (Mathurin Forestier)
- Missa L'homme armé (Jacob ObrechtJacob ObrechtJacob Obrecht was a Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was the most famous composer of masses in Europe in the late 15th century, being eclipsed by only Josquin des Prez after his death.-Life:...
) - Missa L'homme armé super voces musicalesMissa L'homme armé super voces musicalesThe Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales is the first of the two settings of the Ordinary of the Mass, by Josquin des Prez, which use the famous L'homme armé tune as their cantus firmus source material; . The setting is for four voices...
(Josquin des Prez) - Missa L'homme armé sexti toniMissa L'homme armé sexti toniMissa L'homme armé sexti toni is probably the later of two L'homme arme masses by Josquin des Prez - 'sexti toni' refers to the use of the 'sixth mode'. The theme is shared between all voices rather than being confined to the tenor, as in Josquin's earlier L'homme armé mass...
(Josquin des Prez) - Missa L'homme armé (Loyset CompèreLoyset CompèreLoyset Compère was a French composer of the Renaissance. Of the same generation as Josquin des Prez, he was one of the most significant composers of motets and chansons of that era, and one of the first musicians to bring the light Italianate Renaissance style to France.-Life:His exact place of...
) - Missa L'homme armé (Bertrandus Vaqueras)
- Missa L'homme armé (Philippe BasironPhilippe BasironPhilippe Basiron was a French composer, singer, and organist of the Renaissance...
) - Missa L'homme armé (Antoine BrumelAntoine BrumelAntoine Brumel was a French composer. He was one of the first renowned French members of the Franco-Flemish school of the Renaissance, and, after Josquin des Prez, was one of the most influential composers of his generation....
) - Missa L'homme armé (Marbrianus de OrtoMarbrianus de OrtoMarbrianus de Orto was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was a contemporary, close associate, and possible friend of Josquin des Prez, and was one of the first composers to write a completely canonic setting of the Ordinary of the Mass.-Life:The illegitimate child of a priest,...
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Written after 1500:
- Missa L'homme armé (Robert CarverRobert Carver (composer)Robert Carver was a Scottish Renaissance monk and composer of Christian sacred music.He spent much of his life at Scone Abbey in Perthshire and is regarded as Scotland's greatest sixteenth-century composer. He is best known for his sacred choral music, of which there are five surviving masses and...
) - Missa L'homme armé (Matthaeus PipelareMatthaeus PipelareMatthaeus Pipelare was a Flemish composer, choir director, and possibly wind instrument player of the Renaissance.He was from Louvain, and spent part of his early life in Antwerp. Unlike many of his contemporaries, many of whom traveled to Italy, Spain or elsewhere, he seems never to have left...
) - Missa L'homme armé (Pierre de La RuePierre de La RuePierre de la Rue , called Piersson, was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of the Renaissance. A member of the same generation as Josquin des Prez, and a long associate of the Habsburg-Burgundian musical chapel, he ranks with Agricola, Brumel, Compère, Isaac, Obrecht, and Weerbeke as one of the...
) (two) - Missa L'homme armé (Cristóbal Morales) (two)
- Missa L'homme armé (Francisco de PeñalosaFrancisco de PeñalosaFrancisco de Peñalosa was a Spanish composer of the middle Renaissance.-Life:He was born in Talavera de la Reina in the province of Toledo. He spent most of his career in Seville, serving as the maestro di capilla, though he also spent time in Burgos, and three years in Rome at the papal chapel...
) - Missa L'homme armé (Andreas de SilvaAndreas de SilvaAndreas de Silva was a composer, possibly Portuguese, or likely Spanish, who is known mainly from inclusion of five motets in the Medici Codex.Now attributed to de Silva is a madrigal Che sentisti Madonna misattributed to Verdelot in 1537....
) - Missa L'homme armé (Vitalis Venedier)
- Missa L'homme armé (Francisco Guerrero)
- Missa L'homme armé (Ludwig SenflLudwig SenflLudwig Senfl was a Swiss composer of the Renaissance, active in Germany. He was the most famous pupil of Heinrich Isaac, was music director to the court of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, and was an influential figure in the development of the Franco-Flemish polyphonic style in...
) - Missa L'homme armé (PalestrinaGiovanni Pierluigi da PalestrinaGiovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition...
) (two) - Missa L'homme armé (Giacomo CarissimiGiacomo CarissimiGiacomo Carissimi was an Italian composer, one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque, or, more accurately, the Roman School of music.-Biography:...
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More recent L'Homme Armé works
- Peter Maxwell DaviesPeter Maxwell DaviesSir Peter Maxwell Davies, CBE is an English composer and conductor and is currently Master of the Queen's Music.-Biography:...
who wrote Missa super l'homme armé (1968, rev. 1971; for male or female speaker or singer and ensemble) - The Armed ManThe Armed ManThe Armed Man is a Mass by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins, subtitled "A Mass for Peace". The piece was commissioned by the Royal Armouries Museum for the Millennium celebrations, and to mark the museum's move from London to Leeds, and it was dedicated to victims of the Kosovo crisis...
for information about the modern mass by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins - Helmut EderHelmut EderHelmut Eder was an Austrian composer.Eder studied until 1948 at the Linz Conservatory, later studying with Johann Nepomuk David in Stuttgart and Carl Orff in Munich. Returning to Linz, he became a teacher at the Linz Conservatory, accepting a position as full professor in 1962...
Organ Concerto on L'homme armé - Paulo Costa LimaPaulo Costa LimaPaulo Costa Lima is a composer from Salvador, Bahia. He has been a professor of composition at the School of Music of the Federal University of Bahia since 1979.-References:...
who wrote Atotô do L'homme armé para Orquestra de Câmara op. 39 (1993) - Christopher Marshall (composer)Christopher Marshall (composer)Christopher Marshall is a New Zealander Classical composer who currently resides in Orlando, Florida USA.His works include choral works, works for chamber ensemble, orchestral music and works for concert band/wind ensemble for which he is most notable. His most notable composition to date is...
L'homme armé: Variations for Wind Ensemble