Ockeghem : Deo gratias

[cssj43]

GRACIEE MILLLLEE  CD

[cssj43]

GRACIEE

[saladshootavvv]

This is probably a VERY dumb question, but why does this sound so similar to Josquin's Qui Habitat? Is it based off of the same plain chant?

[diggingdon]

HEAVENLY!!!

[megaman90]

the layers and complexity just amazes me! this is what sounds of heaven sounds like.

[rogermoore27]

this is my jam, baby! 

[TheMusicStalker]

UNBELIEVABLE!

[kereklevelu]

Huelgas have just brought out a collection of 15 CDs, costing around 60 euros. No.4, Utopia Triumphans, contains Ockeghem's Deo gratias, as well as Tallis's Spem in alium, Josquin's Qui habitat. Stunning, highly recommended.

[dustinzev]

this is absolutely euphoric

[sacamedeaca]

It was in this period that compossers were being interested in the harmony between the voices. From 0:50 you can recognize a bass voice doing dominant - tonic cadence

[janeym]

Is this sung by the Heulgas Ensemble? (sorry if I didn't spell that right)

[lelutindecouves]

Yes...

[HolyMotherofGrid]

The first time i heard Ockeghem sung by a choir as competent as this one, i nearly freaked out: it was just SO wonderfully medaeval and modal - so foreign to the modern ear used to even-tempered diatonic scales and music based upon chordal progressions, rhythms and catchy phrases. I wish his pieces lasted a bit longer.... i could bask in them for hours!!!

[IpsaPaphum]

The same piece has been posted by codonauta here on Youtube in a version that lasts 6 minutes.

[lehorlanormand]

comme cette musique éveille mon âme et je retrouve tant de bonheur à écouter de la vraie musique

[lucixbucix]

mi innamoro spesso: ho cominciato con Landini, sto proseguendo con Machaut e Dufay, nel mio futuro c'e' anche Ockeghem.. non son piu' capace di ascoltar altra musica che quella medievale, e la canto e la godo in pieno. Questo Deo Gratias e' meraviglioso... grazie

[jsba1987]

Ockeghem è uno dei più grandi compositori della storia! Per affermare che quest'opera non è altro che uno sterile susseguirsi di tonica-dominante o peggio ancora "un vespaio dentro una bottiglia" bisogna essere veramente insensibili all'arte e alla musica, ma soprattutto molto ignoranti: la concatenazione tonica-dominante è propria di un sistema Tonale e denota una precisa funzione armonica, naturalmente non c'entra nulla tutto ciò con Ockeghem...e in fine la musica del 1400 è grandeeeeeee

[MadMusicologist1]

presdemunt is totally right, regression is all around us. Complete immobility would be today a big step forward.

Thanks to the one who posted this music.

[hellomate639]

This is some of the first classical music there is. Just had to look up the composer's name to find this.

Renaissance era music.

[HolyMotherofGrid]

This is indeed very fine music, but very far from being "some of the first" serious music in the "Western" or European tradition.... the earliest examples of polyphonic, or muti-voice music where there is more than one melodic line at a time, dates to around the year 1000. Guido of Arezzo, who lived until 1050, wrote 4-part compositions and invented the type of musical notation and scales which we still use today...hundreds of years before this fine piece of music was written by Ockeghem.

[aggiedee]

Wow! Thank you for posting this. I have been looking for this music for ages. I can't find it anywhere to buy unfortunately :(

[laurion69]

36 voci, però, non vanno da nessuna parte per due minuti: dominante tonica, dominante tonica, dominante tonica...

Sembra un vespaio dentro una bottiglia.

Mah... piuttosto sterile.

[JJeeann]

c'hai proprio ragione...vabè alla fine che ti devi aspettare dal 1400!?

[presdemunt]

che arroganza, è meraviglioso

[presdemunt]

che ti devi aspettare dal 1400 ?

e nel 2000 o 2005, cosa trovi? tonica, tonica, tonica, dum dum dum tonica dum dum dum

[filz76]

thank you very very very much for posting this masterpiece

[papillonjaune2606]

I think that he heard this song,because he was a employeer of Carlos VII and he had a lot of importancy in his era!

[NihilNominis]

Do you think Ockeghem ever heard this sung?

[lelutindecouves]

Of course !

[NihilNominis]

That's a feat in itself - it's hard enough to direct a modern choir of 32 voices!

[lelutindecouves]

The singers made a circle around the director.

[humurabi418]

Hi, where can I get an album of this kind of music? Please message me.

[NihilNominis]

Sorry, of 36 voices - typo.

[juansmdgp]

Muchisimas gracias por compartir esta maravillosa musica!!

[humurabi418]

THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL!!!

Praise be to God always.

[guimaul69]

there are 36 voices! 4 canons with 9 voices each... a incredible masterpiece! thanks to ockeghem and the huelgas ensemble!

[GTTDG]

Le avete contate? Sono 32 voci polifoniche! Incredibile! L'unico (piccolo) dispiacere è che l'opera non si può attribuire con certezza ad Ockeghem. Mille grazie per il video.

[Monrealese]

Ah! Huelgas Ensemble directed by Paul van Nevel if i'm not mistaken. Such a magnifficent work!