Canon
Where to start with Obrecht
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
VocalBeata es Maria
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VocalFactor orbis
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VocalFors seulement
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VocalIc draghe de mutse clutse
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VocalIc ret my uut spacieren
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VocalInter praeclarissimas virtutes
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VocalJ'ay pris amours
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VocalLa tortorella
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VocalLaudemus nunc Dominum; Non est hic aliud
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VocalMissa 'Maria zart'
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VocalMissa Caput
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VocalMissa Fortuna desperata
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VocalMissa Sicut spina rosam, mass for 4 voices
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VocalMissa Sub tuum presidium
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VocalOmnes spiritus laudet, office polyphony
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Obrecht's catalogueMost Popular
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Missa Sub tuum praesidium
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Missa L\’homme armé
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Salve Regina
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Parce Domine
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Missa Fortuna desperata
Most Acclaimed
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Missa Fortuna desperata
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Missa De Tous Biens Playne
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Jacob\’s Lament (Miserere)
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Missa Caput
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Missa Libenter gloriabor
Most Weird
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Missa Sub tuum praesidiumuses structural devices where note values encode numbers — numerical symbolism invisible to the ear
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Jacob\’s Lamentextremely chromatic for 1503 — harmonies that anticipate Gesualdo by 80 years
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Missa Caputthe tenor cantus firmus is taken from an English plainchant source — Franco-Flemish polyphony built on an English foundation
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Missa Fortuna desperatabased on a popular secular chanson about misfortune — sacred music on a worldly theme
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Missa Si dederocanons in augmentation and diminution — mathematical complexity
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 26
- Vocal
- Beata es Maria
- Factor orbis
- Fors seulement
- Ic draghe de mutse clutse
- Ic ret my uut spacieren
- Inter praeclarissimas virtutes
- J'ay pris amours
- La tortorella
- Laudemus nunc Dominum; Non est hic aliud
- Missa 'Maria zart'
- Missa Caput
- Missa Fortuna desperata
- Missa Sicut spina rosam, mass for 4 voices
- Missa Sub tuum presidium
- Omnes spiritus laudet, office polyphony
- Parce Domine
- Rompeltier
- Salve crux arbor vitae, motet for 5 voices
- Salve regina
- Salve regina
- Salve regina
- Salve sancta facies
- Si sumpsero
- Tant que nostre argent dura, chanson for 4 voices
- Tsat een cleyn meiskin, chanson
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