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.
Some of the Missae L'homme armé are as follows:
Probably dating from the 1450s:
- (Antoine Busnois)
- (Guillaume Dufay)
- (Johannes Regis) (two: one lost)
- (Johannes Ockeghem)
- (Guillaume Faugues) (two)
Probably written before 1475:
- (Johannes Tinctoris)
- (Firminus Caron)
- (Cycle of six masses, from an anonymous manuscript from Naples)
Probably written before 1500:
- (Mathurin Forestier)
- (Jacob Obrecht)
- Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales (Josquin des Prez)
- Missa L'homme armé sexti toni (Josquin des Prez)
- (Loyset Compère)
- ()
- (Philippe Basiron)
- (Antoine Brumel)
- (Marbrianus de Orto)
Written after 1500:
- (Robert Carver)
- (Matthaeus Pipelare)
- (Pierre de La Rue) (two)
- (Cristóbal Morales) (two)
- (Francisco de Peñalosa)
- (Andreas de Silva)
- ()
- (Francisco Guerrero) (two)
- (Ludwig Senfl)
- Missa L'homme armé (Palestrina) (two)
- (Giacomo Carissimi)
More recent L'homme armé works[]
- 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[1]
- Helmut Eder Organ Concerto on L'homme armé
- Paulo Costa Lima who wrote Atotô do L'homme armé para Orquestra de Câmara op. 39 (1993)
- Christopher Marshall (composer) L'homme armé: Variations for Wind Ensemble
- Margaret Sandresky Organ Mass "L'homme armé" (1979)[citation needed]
References[]
- ^ Maddocks, Fiona (2016). Music for Life: 100 Works to Carry You Through. Faber & Faber. p. 124. ISBN 978-0-571-32939-7.
- David Fallows: "L'homme armé." Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed April 8, 2007), (subscription access)
Categories:
- Anonymous musical compositions
- French-language songs
- Masses (music)
- Renaissance chansons