Name: A Lammas Ladymass - 13th and 14th Century English Chant and Polyphony by Anonymous 4
Brand: Anonymous 4
SKU: 5414939993060
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In the 13th and 14th centuries, votive masses to the Blessed Virgin were celebrated daily or weekly in many of the larger churches in England. These were special services dedicated to Mary and set to texts written in her honor. Masses were not composed in complete cycles by single composers until the late-14th century, so any recorded version of a medieval mass is a reconstruction, in the same way that each day's mass would have been constructed from different sources. Pieces were chosen to match the occasion or the purpose of the service, since most liturgical texts were related to specific feasts.

A LAMMAS LADYMASS uses anonymous English music of this period, drawing together a variety of liturgical settings including motets with multiple texts, monophonic and polyphonic conductus (songs generally used at transitional points), and a troped Kyrie (one which has additional text inserted into the standard Kyrie text, as a type of commentary) to produce a Ladymass as it might have been celebrated in the 14th century. As is usual for Anonymous 4, the singing is lovely and simple, without sounding mannered or labored.

A Lammas Ladymass - 13th and 14th Century English Chant and Polyphony

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A Lammas Ladymass - 13th and 14th Century English Chant and Polyphony

1. Antiphon: Que est ista

2. Hymn: O quam glorifica

3. Conductus: Ave tuos benedic

4. Motet: In odore - Gracia viam continencie - [quadruplum] - [In odorem]

5. Conductus: Salve mater salvatoris

6. Introit: Salve sancta parens

7. Kyrie: Orbis factor

8. Gloria

9. Gradual : Benedicta et venerabilis

10. Conductus: Ave gloriosa mater

11. Alleluia: Virga ferax aaron

12. Sequence: O maria stella maris

13. Sequence: O ceteris preamabilis

14. Motet: O quam glorifica - O quam beata domina - O quam felix femina - [Tenor]

15. Offertory: Recordare virgo mater - Mater patris et filia

16. Sanctus

17. Agnus Dei

18. Communion: Alma dei genitrix

19. Conductus: Salve mater salvatoris

20. Conductus: Paradisi porta

21. Dismissal: Ite missa est

22. Sequence: Pangat melos grex devotus

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