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Guillaume de Machaut as shown in a French miniature of the fourteenth century, "An allegorical scene in which Nature offers Machaut three of her children - Sense, Rhetoric, and Music."
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The centerpiece of this week's show is the earliest polyphonic mass known to be the work of a single composer: the Messe de Nostre Dame by Guillaume de Machaut, composed circa 1365. The performers are members of Diabolus in Musica.
- Introit: Rorate celi de super.
- Messe de Nostre Dame: Kyrie & Gloria.
- Gradual: Qui sedes domine. Alleluia: Ostende nobis domine. Sequence: Ave maria gratia plena.
- Messe de Nostre Dame: Credo
- Offertoire: Ave Maria gracia plena.
- Motet: A vous Vierge/Ad te Virgo/Regnum Mundi (anon.)
- Preface- Sanctus- Agnus Dei
- Communion: Ecce Virgo concipiet
- Ita Missa Est
- Motet: Rex Karole/Leticie/Virgo Prius (Philippe Royllart)
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