Over 40 settings of the
Ordinary of the Mass using the tune ''
L'homme armé
"L'homme armé" (French for "the armed man") is a secular song from the Late Middle Ages, of the Burgundian School. According to Allan W. Atlas, "the tune circulated in both the Mixolydian mode and Dorian mode (transposed to G)." It was the most p ...
'' 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
A parody mass is a musical setting of the mass, typically from the 16th century, that uses multiple voices of another pre-existing piece of music, such as a fragment of a motet or a secular '' chanson'', as part of its melodic material. It is dis ...
.
Some of the ''Missae L'homme armé'' are as follows:
Probably dating from the 1450s:
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Missa L'homme armé 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.
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Antoine Busnois)
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Missa L'homme armé 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.
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Guillaume Dufay)
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Missa L'homme armé 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.
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Johannes Regis) (two: one lost)
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Missa L'homme armé 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.
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Johannes Ockeghem)
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Missa L'homme armé 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.
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Guillaume Faugues
Guillaume Faugues (fl. c. 1460–1475) was a French composer of Renaissance music.
Life and career
Very little is known of his life, however, a significant representation of his work survives in the form of five mass settings (a large surviving ...
) (two)
Probably written before 1475:
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Missa L'homme armé 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.
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Johannes Tinctoris)
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Missa L'homme armé 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.
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Firminus Caron Firminus Caron (fl. 1460–1475) was a French composer, and likely a singer, of the Renaissance. He was highly successful as a composer and influential, especially on the development of imitative counterpoint, and numerous compositions of his surv ...
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Missa L'homme armé 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.
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'' (Cycle of six masses, from an anonymous manuscript from
Naples)
Probably written before 1500:
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Missa L'homme armé 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.
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Mathurin Forestier Mathurin Forestier (fl. c. 1500) was a French Renaissance composer.
Works
* ''Missa L'homme arme''
* ''Missa Baises moy'', after the song Baisez Moi attributed to Josquin
Josquin Lebloitte dit des Prez ( – 27 August 1521) was a composer of ...
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Missa L'homme armé 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.
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Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales
The ''Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales'' is the first of two settings of the Ordinary of the Mass by Josquin des Prez using the famous '' L'homme armé'' tune as their cantus firmus source material (for the other, presumed later, setting ...
'' (Josquin des Prez)
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Missa L'homme armé sexti toni
''Missa L'homme armé sexti toni'' is probably the latter of two '' L'homme arme'' masses by Josquin des Prez, both published in 1502. " sexti toni" refers to the use of the sixth Gregorian mode
A Gregorian mode (or church mode) is one of the ...
'' (Josquin des Prez)
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Missa L'homme armé 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.
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Loyset Compère)
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Missa L'homme armé 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.
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Bertrandus Vaqueras)
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Missa L'homme armé 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.
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Philippe Basiron
Philippe Basiron (Philippon de Bourges) (c. 1449just before 31 May 1491) was a French composer, singer, and organist of the Renaissance. He was an innovative and prominent composer of the late 15th century, and was praised by many of his contempo ...
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Missa L'homme armé 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.
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Antoine Brumel)
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Missa L'homme armé 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.
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Marbrianus de Orto)
Written after 1500:
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Missa L'homme armé 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.
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Robert Carver)
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Missa L'homme armé 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.
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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 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.
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Pierre de La Rue) (two)
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Missa L'homme armé 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.
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Cristóbal Morales
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Given name
*Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895–1972), Spanish fashion designer
*Cristóbal Cobo (born 1976), Chilean academic
*Cri ...
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Missa L'homme armé 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.
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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 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.
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Andreas de Silva
Andreas de Silva ( fl. 1520) was a composer, probably of Portuguese origin, who is known mainly from inclusion of five motets in the Medici Codex.Winfried Kirsch, Die Motetten des Andreas de Silva (Tutzing: Schneider, 1977),
Now attributed to de ...
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Missa L'homme armé 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.
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Vitalis Venedier)
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Missa L'homme armé 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.
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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 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.
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Ludwig Senfl)
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Missa L'homme armé 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.
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Palestrina) (two)
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Missa L'homme armé 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.
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Giacomo Carissimi
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More recent L'homme armé works
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Peter Maxwell Davies 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
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Helmut Eder
Helmut Eder (December 26, 1916, Linz – February 8, 2005, Salzburg) 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 ...
Organ Concerto on L'homme armé
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Paulo Costa Lima
Paulo Costa Lima (born 1954 in Salvador, Bahia) is a Brazilian composer and music theorist. A member of the Brazilian Academy of Music, Lima's main interest is the interaction between composition and culture, including its political aspects, name ...
who wrote Atotô do L'homme armé para Orquestra de Câmara op. 39 (1993)
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Christopher Marshall (composer)
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His works include choral works, works for chamber ensemble, orchestral music and works for concert ban ...
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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