Guillaume de Machaut - Messe de Notre Dame

[PolishCreepers]

@olaig100

you are right

[madpie109]

Wow. Spectacularly beautiful. Thank you.

[mooliciously]

Appreciate music. This is beautiful! ):<

[EraseAllMemory]

Stunning. Thank you for posting!

[kmfrank75]

beautiful

[TheTsintaosaurus]

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!



[TheTsintaosaurus]

WTF!!!!!!!

[TheTsintaosaurus]

WTF!!!!!!

[missdawn2011]

Brings me closer to God.

[HollyBlad]

Ooft, tough crowd. I love de Machaut's music. <3

[JimJimJimNL]

damn niggers aint using tritone shiiiiit

[pixelcurious]

beautiful. thank you for sharing this.

[illuminatis3rdeye]

Yup. Intro To Music aka Music History is a shitty class haha. My teacher Clyde Thorpe makes it kewl tho. He's one of those "out there" kind of teachers who's lost in translation through the endless abyss of the ether

[batain]

I cannot believe our mouths can make such sound.

[2300skiddo]

Thanks for this. I love Machaut, but frankly, don't you all suspect that the vocalists of his time sounded nothing at all like this?

[drmgrl11]

@2300skiddo and what are they supposed to sound like then

[drmgrl11]

@2300skiddo then?



[Komadin]

why didn't they have dubstep back then

[MarcoAJuarez]

Castrati?

[drmgrl11]

@MarcoAJuarez that wasn't until later, and was mostly practiced in Italy. It's their falsetto voices

[Minotaurion]

I find the terminology used in the comments to this (beautiful) performance somewhat confusing. On scores for this mass, the voices are referred to as (running from top to bottom): Triplum, motetus, tenor, contratenor. Contratenor is the lowest line on the score, though the pitch is often higher than the tenor line. Of course, the triplum and motetum voices are best sung by countertenors or contraltoes. Sopranos and mezzos tend to get sore throats.

Thank you for posting this.

[drmgrl11]

@Minotaurion voice crossing. used as early as 1100.

[Minotaurion]

@drmgrl11 "Voice crossing" has nothing to do with my comment, even though there is a lot of it in Machaut. My point was that modern usage of the term "countertenor" has little to do with medieval usage of the term "contratenor". A modern countertenor is a man singing in his falsetto voice, and is a high voice. A "countertenor" is very well suited to sing the triplum or motetus part in this. The "contratenor" part in this agnus dei part is actually a high bass part.

[verofandi]

Excelente , las voces estas perfectamente empastadas ... gracias por compartir este video ...

[Daviide64]

Superba

[kolmerD]

Medievil Era

[mindpiss]

which one is singing the top line?

Impressive

[starbreez3]

@mindpiss the top line you mean is the countertenor, there are two, Jose Hernandez Pastor, which is the 'deeper' countertenor voice in here and Carlos Mena, the top line countertenor =)

[Subtilior74]

It's so difficult to find live performances of medieval music on youtube.... I wonder why is that! I'd love to find videos of Fumeux Fume, Beaute Parfaite, Se Galaas... you know? The 14th century top 40 hits!!!

[bay224]

Was guillaume the first musical director for the notre dame cathedral?

[constellationcancer]

this is definitely better than ANY other kind of music

[olaig100]

I can easily dance or listen RAP or any other kind of music, and I will enjoy. Never the less Guillaume de Machot can be everithng but boring. If you think that loving this music means to be snobbish, then I am snobbish and there is no way that I will change, sorry. Olaig

[CrRonaldo17]

@olaig100 Nah Machaut is super boring!! Hidegard better x20

[gbmcvee]

@olaig100 Just to support what you say...

"The study of the history of music and the hearing of masterworks of different epochs will speediest of all cure you of vanity and self-adoration." - Robert Schumann

[olaig100]

If so, don't watch and listen. Just switch the page and you can find a lot of rap music and dance it if you whish...very simple.

[123JoeD456]

Don't be snobby like he's being, there's alot of intellectual and experiment rap music.

[pappeskemann]

Boring -_-

[fortyblinks]

Oh dear, the resemblance is uncanny.

[starbreez3]

You always lose some of the range, but if you keep the healthy vocal practice with a coach and stuff, never by yourself, you can keep your timbre untouched, and that would be awesome, try, it will worth it really. ^__~

[92jacko]

Midgets in Oingo boingo's videos are funny lol !

[tlwalrus]

You kids and your ars nova...

[MrJukaJukic]

@tlwalrus and ars anticca

[bubblykings]

I love the French Ars Nova style! Machaut's polyphonic chansons are just as wonderful. :)

[AlainNaigeon]

That's great ! Isn't the conductor Antoine Gerber, the leader of the ensemble "Diabolus in musica" ?

[baldwalrus7]

Wonderful performance, even if I think it should be in a church not a concert hall.

[wowzers5432109]

It is in a church, The abbey church of Solemes

[baldwalrus7]

Really! Oops, my mistake. :-)

[janstamic]

Wow! i´m completely astonished with this monumental work i ´ve just discovered!

i´ve never seen such thing in the middle age music before.

He must be the medieval Bach!

[HolyMotherofGrid]

Congratulations on percieving that this is indeed great music!! I encourage you to dig deeper - there's all kinds of great music in the 600 or so years of "pre-Bach" music available to us. Du Fay for example, and Josquin Des Pres are two of my personal favorites.

[endora60]

I'm just starting to get into this kind of music, so thank you for the advice. I'll be finding some Du Fay and Josquin Des Pres today.

[HolyMotherofGrid]

Wishing you all the best in your newfound interest!! I strongly recommend Ockeghem (sp?) as well - when you are in a contemplative mood, his music is completely awesom!!

[bogienka]

Great. One question - why there is a conductor? It looks weird when somebody is conducting such a small ensemble!!!

[sp27weirdnumber]

i really thought there was a girl there because of the sound

[AlainNaigeon]

Ok, but you know, many pop music male singers can sing with such a high voice too ;-)

Women were not allowed to sing in churches in this time (that was our own "islamic" period, LOL).

[fatalframe95]

Counter-Tenor Voice can get that high XD Sometimes i hate that it can be my natural tone. I naturally sound higher in voice than one of my own friends who is older than I lol. I am only 16..... And she can Sing Soprano 1 very well, it's just... Singing wise, me and her can hit the same High E.... orally, She has a very deep voice XD She's older by 2 years. I can come off as... wrong in many ways if it was heard lol

[deirfnhaW]

Wunderbar

[ttpatitah]

is this Agnus Dei?

[jacobsoe]

no, "Gloria" as per my Music: The Art of Listening" textbook (Ferris, 6ed.)

[beethomozart]

fantastic polyphonic mass composed in 1350,during the ars nova movement by gillaume de machaut

[atmosphere1823]

Absolutely sublime!!

WOW!!!

[lovelymess]

I have just added a work of my own for four part men's chorus.

I am not as good a singer as these guys, especially on the low end, but I hope that fans of this kind of music will find my work of interest.

[gehaktmolen]

I sang the 2nd countertenor line (officialy tenor line) too, i can do better:)

[mebeshaba]

holy meter ;)

[mongoosedriver1]

triple meter?

[kifu]

yes.

[kifu]

yes triple meter

[54spiritedwill54]

maravilhoso! I really would like to live in the medieval times

[TravBalazs]

Superb, thanks for posting this.

[featheredmusic]

love this song

[beanabus77]

Beautifully sung - somewhat reminiscent of the Hilliards....

Machaut rocks my world....

[cuckthefardinals]

Key word being somewhat.. Hilliards are the divine masters

[mariam04]

Beautiful, thank you :-)

[jianchengzhu]

awesome

[Connell66]

It's rather unfortunate that so little is known of the medieval era in human history. Machaut is one of the most influential composers of his time.

[intigfx]

there is a huge chasm between the public perception of the middle ages and what they really were. many advances that led to modern society were made during the middle ages.

[Connell66]

True. But the lack of known contemporary written history would likely obscure such things. Little is known of the types of lives they lived back then.

The Dark Ages may not necessarily have been a time of backwardness. Closer to the truth was that they were a time of development and territorial expansion. Written history did exist, but the annals are very few and far between, and many I'm sure still haven't been found.

[lovelymess]

Beautifully done, and of course,

Machaut! A great master.

What sublime sounds.

[TrebleLover]

Bellissimo! Un'esecuzione perfetta. Hai anche il resto della messa oltre al Sanctus e Agnus?

[olaig100]

Ho ancora qualche pesso in un DVD che registrai quando Mezzo trasmise. Però la Messa era già iniziata e le parti migliori son quelle che ho postato. Forse ce n'è un'altra. Controllerò. Poi c'è la parte in gregoriano.

Olaig

[TrebleLover]

Grazie ;-)

[radiodani]

Complimenti!!!!

[ricardofrantz]

W*O*N*D*E*R*F*U*L !!!!

[kiya3]

FANTASTIC! Thank you so much for posting it.

[olaig100]

Nat at all. It was my pleasure. I am glad you enjoy. Ciao

Olaig

[rollinatien]

Sublimissime...

[GrlLeastLikelyTo]

Whoo, that short guy really gets into it! Great singing/chanting, Machaut is splendid. Palestrina does some good stuff too.

[kiya3]

What an enchanting comment... indeed Palestrina seems to be a good composer, how about Lassus, Schutz, Monteverdi, Viadana, Alegri and others... Thank you fro bringing a smile.

[khalileltarik]

maravilhoso! I really would like to live in the medieval times just because of it! Guillaume de Machaut est merveilleux!

[krimzonblade]

Amazing! This song really moved me!

-Nick P.

[arok100]

Che bravi .