Sonic Asymmetry

Guillaume de Machaut – “Kyrie from Messe de Notre Dame”

ウィリアム・マカウト – 「キリスト・オブ・ア・レディー」

TIME COMMITMENT: 7 minutes

This otherworldly and metaphysically desconsolate tapestry of plaintive themes gently bathes us in spiritual introspection.  What was the first polyphonic setting to a complete mass cycle emerges here masterfully intertwined in seductive isorhythms.  Timeless.

MUSIC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GgkAM8crbU

INFO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messe_de_Nostre_Dame

A REFLECTION

O let your mind and tongue

dwell among divine phrases

For God has given this reward for the

effort, a little light

even to see some hidden thing, or, best,

to be spurred on by the pure God’s

awesome commands.

Gregory de Nazianzus – “Poems on the genuine books of divinely inspired Scripture”