Pomerium
Alexander Blachly, Director

Battling the Serpent:
The Caput and L’homme armé Traditions in Music

Annual Meeting of the
American Musicological Society
Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste
480, rue St-Jean, Québec City
Québec, CANADA

8:00 p.m.
3 November 2007  

The Source of the Caput Melody

Maundy Thursday antiphon, Venit ad Petrum

British Library, Harley 2942 (13th-cent. Sarum chant)

Caput Crushed Underfoot

Missa Caput, Kyrie

Johannes Ockeghem (d. 1497)

Caput In Its English Guise

Missa Caput, Gloria

Anon. (English, 15th cent.)

Caput As Insidious Serpent

Missa Caput, Agnus Dei

Jacob Obrecht (ca. 1458-1505)

Mary Triumphant

Salve regina/[Caput]

Richard Hygons (ca. 1435-1509)

INTERMISSION

The Original L’homme armé Song

L’homme armé

Anon. (15th-cent. song)

An Early L’homme armé Mass

Missa L’homme armé, Kyrie

Guillaume Du Fay (ca. 1397-1474)

L’homme armé in the Phrygian Mode

Missa L’homme armé, Gloria

Loyset Compère (ca. 1445-1518)

L’homme armé in Neo-Josquinian Style

Missa L’homme armé, Credo

Cristóbal de Morales (ca. 1500-1553)

L’homme armé As Counter-Reformation Statement

Missa L’homme armé, Sanctus

G.P. da Palestrina (ca. 1525-1594)

The Lamb of God Triumphant

Missa L’homme armé, Agnus

Josquin Desprez (ca. 1452-1521)

Pomerium
Kristina Boerger, Michèle Eaton, Melissa Fogarty, Dominique Surh - sopranos
Silvie Jensen - mezzo-soprano
Robert Isaacs - countertenor
Thom Baker, Neil Farrell, Michael Steinberger - tenors
Mark Duer, Jeffrey Johnson, Kurt-Owen Richards, Peter Stewart - basses