Ensemble Nusmido grapples with 600-year-old music and attempts – in four-voice a cappella and instrumental settings – to come as close as possible to the sonic ideals of early polyphony. As singers and instrumentalists, the musicians focus their attention on a flexible musicality beyond the rigid metrical framework of bar lines, on active contrapuntal interplay, and on a natural connection with the acoustics of the performance space. “Johannes Ockeghem – Missa L”homme arm\u00e9” thus creates an exciting journey into long gone worlds of knights, castles, and beautiful music. The chanson “L”homme arm\u00e9” (The Armed Man) is one of the most popular songs of the Middle Ages. The brave knights presented in this song, its certain victories and bloody battles, played a central role in the minds of fifteenth-century people: as soon as the Hundred Years War had come to a close, the Turks conquered Constantinople and threatened to attack Europe. The seemingly simple melody of L’homme arm\u00e9functioned as the basis of over thirty Mass settings in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. One of these was written by the Flemish composer Johannes Ockeghem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ensemble Nusmido grapples with 600-year-old music and attempts – in four-voice a cappella and instrumental settings – to come as close as possible to the sonic ideals of early polyphony. As singers and instrumentalists, the musicians focus their attention on a flexible musicality beyond the rigid metrical framework of bar lines, on active contrapuntal interplay, … Continue reading Ensemble Nusmido: |Missa L’homme arm\u00e9<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1315],"tags":[733,952,1041,953],"class_list":["post-10249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-choir","category-music","tag-johann-sebastian-bach","tag-kammerchor-hannover","tag-la-festa-musicale","tag-stephan-doormann"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10250,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249\/revisions\/10250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}