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La Messe de Nostre Dame

Mass setting by Guillaume de Machaut

Sources

New York: Wildenstein Collection, fol. 283v (4/4);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1584 (MachA), fol. 438v (4/4); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1585 (MachB), fol. 281v (4/4); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 9221 (MachE), fol. 164v (4/4); Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 22546 (MachG), fol. 125v (4/4).

Facsimiles

Guilllaume de Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame, facsimile edition by Friedrich Gennrich, Darmstadt: 1957, [see Earp].

Editions

1. KALKBRENNER, Christian. Kurzer Abriss der Geschichte der Tonkunst, 1792, p. (incomplete).
2. Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377): Messe Notre-Dame dite du sacre de Charles V (1364) à 4 voix ègales, edited by Jacques Chailley, Paris: 1948.
3. Messe Notre-Dame à quatre voix de Guillaume de Machault, edited by Armand Machabey, Liège: 1948.
4. Guglielmi de Mascaudio. La Messe de Nostre Dame, edited by Guillaume de Van, Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1949. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 2.
5. Guillaume de Machault: La Messe de Notre Dame, edited by H. Hübsch, Heidelberg: 1953.
6. Guillaume de Machaut: Musikalische Werke. Vierter Band: Messe und Lais, edited by Friedrich Ludwig and completed posthumously by Heinrich Besseler, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1954.
7. The Works of Guillaume de Machaut, Second Part, edited by Leo Schrade, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1956. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century III, p. 37-64.
8. Guillaume de Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame, edited by Denis Stevens, London: Oxford University Press, 1973.

Literature

1. LUDWIG, Friedrich. 'Die mehrstimmige Messe des 14. Jahrhunderts', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, VII (1925), pp. 420-421.
2. Guillaume de Machaut: Musikalische Werke. Zweiter Band: Einleitung zu I. Balladen, Rondeaux und Virelais. II. Motetten. III. Messe und Lais, edited by Friedrich Ludwig, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1928.
3. MACHABEY, Armand. 'Guillaume de Machault'. La revue musicale, XII (1931), pp. 406-408.
4. REESE, Gustave. Music in the Middle Ages, New York: W. W. Norton, London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1940, pp. 347, 356-357.
5. CAPE, Safford. 'The Machaut mass and its performance', The Score, II (1950): 20; XXV (1959): 38.
6. GOMBOSI, O. 'Machaut's Messe Notre-Dame', Musical Quarterly, XXXVI (1950): 204ff.
7. MACHABEY, Armand. Guillaume de Machault, 130?-1377: La vie et l'oeuvre musicale, 2 vols, Paris: Richard-Masse-Editeur, 1955. Bibliothèque d'ètudes musicales, pp. 113-116.
8. GÜNTHER, Ursula. Der musikalische Stilwandel der französischen Liedkunst in der zweiten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts, dargestelt an Virelais, Balladen und Rondeax von Machaut., Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hamburg: 1957, Chapter 4.5.
9. REANEY, Gilbert. '"Ars Nova" in France', [chapter 1 of] The New Oxford History of Music. III. Ars Nova and the Renaissance, edited by Dom Anselm Hughes and Gerald Abraham, London: Oxford University Press, 1960, pp. 21-22.
10. HARMAN, Alec. Man and His Music: The Story of Musical Experience in the West. Vol I: Mediaeval and Early Renaissance Music, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962, pp. 148-153.
11. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Chronologie und Stil der Kompositionen Guillaume de Machauts', Acta Musicologica, XXXV (1963), p. 113.
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13. POP, Rodica. 'Elemente ale gindirii functionale prezente in creatia lui Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377)', Lucrari de Muzicologie, II (1967), p. 4.
14. KUCKERTZ, Josef. 'Die Satztechnik in den mehrstimmigen Messordinarien des 14. Jahrhunderts', Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrbuch, LII (1968), pp. 47-48.
15. DÖMLING, Wolfgang. 'Isorhythmie und Variation. Über Kompositionstechnik in der Messe Guillaume de Machauts', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XXVIII/1 (1971), pp. 24-32.
16. CRAMER, Eugene C. 'Guillaume de Machaut. La Messe de Notre Dame', Adagio, I/5 (1975): 17-21.
17. FALLOWS, David. 'Guillaume de Machaut and his Mass, a commemoration and a review', The Musical Times, CXVIII/April (1977): 288-291.
18. STEVENS, Denis and David FALLOWS. 'The Machaut Mass [letter to the editor]', The Musical Times, CXVIII/August (1977): 641-642.
19. PARROTT, Andrew. 'Performing Machaut's Mass on record', Early Music, V/4, (1977): 492-495.
20. WILKINS, Nigel. 'Guillaume de Machaut, 1300-1377', Consort, XXXIII/2 (1977), pp. 214-215.
21. PULIDO, E. 'Guillaume de Machaut, fuentes de su obra musical', Heterofonia, XI (1978), p. 14.
22. HOPPIN, Richard H. Medieval Music, New York: W. W. Norton, 1978, pp. 414-420.
23. KEITEL, Elizabeth A. 'The so-called cyclic mass of Guillaume de Machaut: new evidence for an old debate', The Musical Quarterly, LXVIII/3 (1982): 307-23.
24. CHAILLEY, Jacques. 'La composition dans la Messe de Guillaume de Machaut', Guillaume de Machaut, poète et compositeur. Colloque - Table Ronde, 1978, pp. 282-288.
25. KEITEL, Elisabeth. 'Les problèmes rencontrès pour dater la Messe', Guillaume de Machaut, poète et compositeur. Colloque - Table Ronde, 1978, pp. 289-293.
26. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Contribution de la musicologie à la biographie et à la chronologie de Guillaume de Machaut', Guillaume de Machaut, poète et compositeur. Colloque - Table Ronde, 1978, pp. 95-116.
27. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Sinnbezüge zwischen Text und Musik in Ars nova und Ars subtilior', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 229-268.
28. MARKSTROM, Kurt. 'Machaut and the wild beast', Acta Musicologica, LXI/1 (1989), pp. 35-36.
29. YUDKIN, Jeremy. Music in Medieval Europe, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1989, pp. 482-487.
30. LEECH-WILKINSON, Daniel. Machaut's Mass: An Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Recordings

1. [Machaut], Deller Consort, Ancient Instrument Ensemble of Zurich, directed by Alfred Deller, Austin Miskell: Harmonia Mundi HMU 34917.
2. [Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame], Dessoff Choirs with the New York Brass Ensemble, directed by Paul Boepple (1951): CLASSIC 6193.
3. The Ars Nova in France. Guillaume de Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame; Ten Secular Works, Brussels Pro Musica Antiqua, directed by Safford Cape (1956): Archiv ARC 3032 [US].
4. [Machaut mass], Vocal ensemble: J. Archimbaud (Tr), Pierre Deniau (C-T), G., directed by Roger Blanchard (1956): Ducretet-Thomson 270.C.085.
5. Music at Notre Dame in Paris, Deller Consort London, members of Collegium Aureum (1961): Lumen AMS 5005.
6. Guillaume de Machaut. Notre Dame Mass and Gregorian Proper for the Feast of The Assumption, The London Ambrosian Singers with the The Vienna Renaissance, directed by John McCarthy (1966): Harmonia Mundi HMF 10.071 (FRA).
7. Guillaume de Machaut. La Messe de Notre Dame, Virelais, Rondeaux, Ballades, Lai, The Purcell Choir with instrumental ensemble, John Caldwell, directed by Frank Ll. Harrison, Grayston Burgess (1969): Oiseau-Lyre SOL 310 (GB) [ZTT-717-IG].
8. Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300 - 1377). La Messe de Nostre Dame. 9 Weltliche Werke, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and soloists, directed by August Wenzinger (1969): Archiv-IMS 2533 054 (INT).
9. Guillaume de Machaut. La Messe de Nostre Dame, Motetten, James Bowman and Tom Sutcliffe (CT), Capella Antiqua München, directed by Konrad Ruhland (1970): Telefunken AS6 41125 (SAWT 9566-B).
10. En Retrouvant le Moyen Age, Ensemble Polyphonique de Paris, directed by Charles Ravier (1971): Boìte a Musique BAM LD 5100.
11. [Guillaume de Machaut], Sèminaire Europèen de Musique Ancienne, directed by Bernard Gagnepain (1977): Erato EFM 18041.
12. Anonyme du XIVe Siècle: Messe de Tournai; Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame, Ensemble Vocal Guillaume Dufay, Ensemble Instrumental 'Les S, directed by Arsène Bedois (1981): Erato STU 71303 (FRA).
13. Guillaume de Machaut. Messe de Nostre Dame, Taverner Consort, Taverner Choir, directed by Andrew Parrott (1984): EMI Reflexe IC067-1435761.
14. Guillaume de Machaut Messe de Notre Dame, Hillard Endemble, directed by Paul Hillier (1989): Hyperion CDA 66358.