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Agnus Dei (NDM)

Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377)

Agnus Dei (from Notre Dame Mass)

CD 1, Tracks 47-49

The Notre Dame Mass was composed for four voices. However, each voice may very well have been doubled (or perhaps performed) by some type of musical instrument. Like the text, the music consists of three distinct sections. Note that the upper voices move faster than the two lower parts and the occasional dissonances, triads, and rhythmically distinct parts project a fuller sound than earlier works of the medieval period. The selection is in triple meter.

Section A

47)

Agnus dei, qui tollis peccata mundi: miserere nobis.

Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.

Section B

48)

Agnus dei, qui tollis peccata mundi: miserere nobis.

Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.

Section A

49)

Agnus dei, qui tollis peccata mundi: dona nobis pacem.

Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world, grant us peace.

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