A musician named Sant Omer or hailing from the Flemish town of

Saint-Omer Saint-Omer (; vls, Sint-Omaars) is a commune and sub-prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department in France. It is west-northwest of Lille on the railway to Calais, and is located in the Artois province. The town is named after Saint Audomar, ...

near (the then English town) of

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is specified as the composer of a three-voice

Sanctus The Sanctus ( la, Sanctus, "Holy") is a hymn in Christian liturgy. It may also be called the ''epinikios hymnos'' ( el, ἐπινίκιος ὕμνος, "Hymn of Victory") when referring to the Greek rendition. In Western Christianity, the ...

in the early fifteenth century music manuscript,

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, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS 1475. Fragments of the Sanctus are also found in a manuscript formerly in

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, discovered in 1990 but now lost. The style of the piece has been described as "archaic" with

modal rhythm In medieval music, the rhythmic modes were set patterns of long and short durations (or rhythms). The value of each note is not determined by the form of the written note (as is the case with more recent European musical notation), but rather by i ...

s resembling those of the Mass of Tournai. It is one of several pieces described as part of the "''Stili Vaganti''" by Francesco Facchin. Adjacent to the Paduan Sanctus is an

Agnus Dei is the Latin name under which the " Lamb of God" is honoured within the Catholic Mass and other Christian liturgies descending from the Latin liturgical tradition. It is the name given to a specific prayer that occurs in these liturgies, and ...

in similar style which may be by the same composer.Cuthbert, Michael Scott. "Trecento Fragments and Polyphony beyond the Codex." Ph.D. dissertation: Harvard University, 2006. Chp. 2. The Sanctus has been edited and completed by Giulio Cattin and Francesco Facchin in ''Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century'' vol. 23B, pp. 434–44, though it is marked as an anonymous composition.

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