Jean Mouton: Missa Dictes moy toutes voz pensées album cover
Jean Mouton: Missa Dictes moy toutes voz pensées

Peter Phillips , The Tallis Scholars

Composed by:  Jean Mouton , Loyset Compère

2012
Gimell Records

During the Renaissance period, it was very common for composers to write Mass settings that used popular songs as melodic sources; the cactus firmus would be the popular melody, and a whole large-scale choral composition would elaborate upon it. For this Mass, the Franco-Flemish composer Jean Richafort used the melody of a song called “Dictes moy toutes voz pensées” (archaic French for “tell me all your thoughts”) to create a lush and somber masterpiece of religious music, sung beautifully here by the Tallis Scholars.

– Rick Anderson

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