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:

Probably written before 1475:

Probably written before 1500:

Written after 1500:

More recent L'homme armé works

gollark: (yes, this is in fact the canonical definition of computers)
gollark: All computers can, by definition.
gollark: Since you can do more computation per unit energy at lower temperatures, and as the universe expands and loses usable energy it cools, I think some physicist worked out that you could manage to fit in an infinite amount of computing over infinite time somehow.
gollark: That's poorly defined.
gollark: Well, if you get immortal enough, you might be around then.

References

  1. 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)
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