In Memoriam: Guillaume De Machaut's Messe Notre Dame

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Label
Aeon
Release Date
January 11, 2011
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MACHAUT, GUILLAUME DE
    • PERFORMER
      Musica Nova, Kandel
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 11, 2011
    • UPC
      3760058360934
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      AECD1093
    • LABEL
      Aeon
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    Works ⌄

    1. Vos quid admiramini / Gratissima

      Composer: Philippe de Vitry

      Ensemble: Musica Nova

    2. Adesto [Codex Robertsbridge]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Musica Nova

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    3. Impudenter circuivi / Virtutibus

      Composer: Philippe de Vitry

      Ensemble: Musica Nova

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    4. Musicalis sciencia / Sciencie laudabili

      Composer: Pierre de Bruges

      Ensemble: Musica Nova

    5. Alma polis religio / Axe poli cum artica

      Composer: Johannes de Porta

      Ensemble: Musica Nova

    6. Pantheon abluitur / Apollonis eclipsatur / Zodiacum signis lustrantibus

      Composer: Bernard De Cluny

      Ensemble: Musica Nova

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    7. Tribum [Codex Robertsbridge]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    8. Kyrie I

      Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

      Ensemble: Musica Nova

    9. Christie

      Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

      Ensemble: Musica Nova

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    10. Kyrie II-III

      Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

      Ensemble: Musica Nova

    11. Gloria

      Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

      Ensemble: Musica Nova

    12. Credo

      Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

      Ensemble: Musica Nova

    13. Sanctus

      Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

      Ensemble: Musica Nova

    14. Agnus Dei

      Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

      Ensemble: Musica Nova

    15. Ite missa est

      Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

      Ensemble: Musica Nova

    16. Benedicamus Domino [Codex Faenza]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Joseph Rassam

    17. Armes, amours / O flour des flours

      Composer: Franciscus Andrieu

      Ensemble: Musica Nova

      Performer: Joseph Rassam


Musica Nova, with its rich experience performing the ballades and motets of Guillaume de Machaut, set out to rewrite the book on his most famous and emblematic work: the so-called Messe de Nostre Dame. The very elaborate construction of the mass and its strange and subtle harmonies win the admiration of all. But do we really know what its true sound was? Though we cannot be quite sure, our research into the 14th-century theory of musica ficta, led by specialist Gérard Geay, has allowed us to come close, opening up an unheard sound world. In order to perform this music the singers worked from various 14th-century manuscript sources. They used the reading techniques of that era in an attempt to stay as close as possible to the phrasing and vocal movement that Machaut would have had in mind. Reading from the manuscript places the singer in a world of long note values with ternary divisions (modus perfectus), which automatically suggests a longer breath and a more spacious performance. Machaut's mass alternates between two styles of composition: the conductus (Gloria and Credo), a 13th-century legacy in which all voices follow the same rhythm, and the isorhythmic motet (Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, Ite missa est, and the final Amen in the both the Gloria and Credo), which is specific to the Ars Nova.