Ockeghem's Missa Cuiusvis Toni: In Its Original Notation and Edited in All the Modes

"... one of those rare publications which succeeds equally as a scholarly edition for study and as a practical edition for performance." --Musick

"... a clear, easily grasped transcription of this work, suitable for performance or study." --Notes

"... a clear rendition of the original notation into its modern counterpart.... Houle has produced an edition that is a model of scholarship and performance clarity and is of value to any musician, scholar or performer, who wishes to acquire familiarity and experience with 15th-century contrapuntal style." --American Recorder

This is the first comprehensive edition of Ockeghem's "mass in any mode," which has fascinated musicians, historians, and theorists since the fifteenth century. Missa cuiusvis toni offers singers brilliant counterpoint, a masterful exercise in solmization, and experience in musica ficta. The singers' parts appear in mensural notation, but Houle also provides full scores and parts in modern notation for the Phrygian, Mixolydian, Lydian, and Dorian modes.

GEORGE HOULE, Professor of Music at Stanford University, is author of Meter and Music: 1600-1800. He has produced a modern edition of Le Ballet des Fâcheux: Beauchamp's Music for Molière's Comedy and of Doulce memoire, the latter containing twenty-four versions of the chanson.

Introduction

Structure of the Missa cuiusvis toni

Emotional Connotations of the Modes

Performance of the Missa cuiusvis toni

In the Phrygian Mode

In the Mixolydian Mode

In the Lydian Mode

In the Dorian Mode

The Missa cuiusvis toni in the Phyrgian Mode

Kyrie

Gloria

Credo

Sanctus

Agnus dei

The Missa cuiusvis toni in the Mixolydian Mode

Kyrie

Gloria

Credo

Sanctus

Agnus dei

The Missa cuiusvis toni in the Lydian Mode

Kyrie

Gloria

Credo

Sanctus

Agnus dei

The Missa cuiusvis toni in the Dorian Mode

Kyrie

Gloria

Credo

Sanctus

Agnus dei