Over 40 settings of the
Ordinary of the Mass
The ordinary, in Roman Catholic and other Western Christian liturgies, refers to the part of the Mass or of the canonical hours that is reasonably constant without regard to the date on which the service is performed. It is contrasted to the ''pr ...
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:
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Missa L'homme armé'' (
Antoine Busnois
Antoine Busnois (also Busnoys; – before 6 November 1492) was a French composer, singer and poet of early Renaissance music. Busnois and colleague Johannes Ockeghem were the leading European composers of the second half the 15th century, and ...
)
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Missa L'homme armé'' (
Guillaume Dufay
Guillaume Du Fay ( , ; also Dufay, Du Fayt; 5 August 1397(?) – 27 November 1474) was a French composer and music theorist of the early Renaissance. Considered the leading European composer of his time, his music was widely performed and repr ...
)
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Missa L'homme armé'' (
Johannes Regis
Johannes Regis (French: ''Jehan Leroy''; – ) was a Netherlandish 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.
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) (two: one lost)
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Missa L'homme armé'' (
Johannes Ockeghem
Johannes Ockeghem ( – 6 February 1497) was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of early Renaissance music. Ockeghem was the most influential European composer in the period between Guillaume Du Fay and Josquin des Prez, and he was—with hi ...
)
* ''
Missa L'homme armé'' (
Guillaume Faugues) (two)
Probably written before 1475:
* ''
Missa L'homme armé'' (
Johannes Tinctoris
Jehan le Taintenier or Jean Teinturier (Latinised as Johannes Tinctoris; also Jean de Vaerwere; – 1511) was a Renaissance music theorist and composer from the Low Countries. Up to his time, he is perhaps the most significant European writer ...
)
* ''
Missa L'homme armé'' (
Firminus Caron)
* ''
Missa L'homme armé'' (Cycle of six masses, from an anonymous manuscript from
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
)
Probably written before 1500:
* ''
Missa L'homme armé'' (
Mathurin Forestier)
* ''
Missa L'homme armé'' (
)
* ''
Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales'' (Josquin des Prez)
* ''
Missa L'homme armé sexti toni'' (Josquin des Prez)
* ''
Missa L'homme armé'' (
Loyset Compère
Loyset Compère ( – 16 August 1518) was a Franco-Flemish 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 ...
)
* ''
Missa L'homme armé'' (
Bertrandus Vaqueras)
* ''
Missa L'homme armé'' (
Philippe Basiron)
* ''
Missa L'homme armé'' (
Antoine Brumel
Antoine Brumel (c. 1460 – 1512 or 1513) 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 gene ...
)
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Missa L'homme armé'' (
Marbrianus de Orto
Marbrianus de Orto (Dujardin; also Marbriano, Marbrianus) ( – January or February 1529) was a Dutch composer of the Renaissance ( Franco-Flemish school). He was a contemporary, close associate, and possible friend of Josquin des Prez, and was o ...
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Written after 1500:
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Missa L'homme armé'' (
Robert Carver)
* ''
Missa L'homme armé'' (
Matthaeus Pipelare
Matthaeus Pipelare ( – ) was a Netherlandish 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 t ...
)
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Missa L'homme armé'' (
Pierre de La Rue
Pierre de la Rue ( – 20 November 1518) was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of the Renaissance. His name also appears as Piersson or variants of Pierchon and his toponymic, when present, as various forms of de Platea, de Robore, or de Vic ...
) (two)
* ''
Missa L'homme armé'' (
Cristóbal Morales) (two)
* ''
Missa L'homme armé'' (
Francisco de Peñalosa
Francisco de Peñalosa (c. 1470 – April 1, 1528) 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 capi ...
)
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Missa L'homme armé'' (
Andreas de Silva)
* ''
Missa L'homme armé'' (
Vitalis Venedier)
* ''
Missa L'homme armé'' (
Francisco Guerrero Francisco Guerrero is the name of:
*Francisco Guerrero (composer) (1528–1599), Spanish composer of the Renaissance
* Francisco Guerrero (politician) (1811–1851), Alcalde of San Francisco
*Francisco Guerrero Marín (1951–1997), Spanish composer ...
) (two)
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Missa L'homme armé'' (
Ludwig Senfl
Ludwig Senfl (born around 1486, died between December 2, 1542 and August 10, 1543) 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 R ...
)
* ''
Missa L'homme armé'' (
Palestrina
Palestrina (ancient ''Praeneste''; grc, Πραίνεστος, ''Prainestos'') is a modern Italian city and ''comune'' (municipality) with a population of about 22,000, in Lazio, about east of Rome. It is connected to the latter by the Via Pre ...
) (two)
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Missa L'homme armé'' (
Giacomo Carissimi)
More recent L'homme armé works
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (8 September 1934 – 14 March 2016) was an English composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music.
As a student at both the University of Manchester and the Royal Manchester College of Musi ...
who wrote Missa super l'homme armé (1968, rev. 1971; for male or female speaker or singer and ensemble)
* ''
The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace'' by
Karl Jenkins
Sir Karl William Pamp Jenkins (born 17 February 1944) is a Welsh multi-instrumentalist and composer. His best known works include the song " Adiemus" and the ''Adiemus'' album series; '' Palladio''; ''The Armed Man''; and his ''Requiem''.
J ...
*
Helmut Eder Organ Concerto on L'homme armé
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Paulo Costa Lima who wrote Atotô do L'homme armé para Orquestra de Câmara op. 39 (1993)
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Christopher Marshall (composer) L'homme armé: Variations for Wind Ensemble
*Margaret Sandresky Organ Mass "L'homme armé" (1979)
*Joel Thompson, Seven Last Words of the Unarmed
References
* David Fallows: "L'homme armé." Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed April 8, 2007)
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