Ockeghem- Missa prolationum; Desprez- Missa \'Da pacem\'

O Magnum Mysterium -
Johannes Ockeghem: Missa Prolationum and Josquin desPrez: Missa Da Pacem
Stuttgart Schola Cantorum


The Missa prolationum is a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass, by Johannes Ockeghem, dating from the second half of the 15th century. Based on freely written material probably composed by Ockeghem himself, and consisting entirely of mensuration canons[1], it has been called "perhaps the most extraordinary contrapuntal achievement of the fifteenth century", and was possibly the first multi-part work to be written which used a unifying canonic principle all its movements

The mass is for four voices, and is in the usual parts:

1. Kyrie
2. Gloria
3. Credo
4. Sanctus and
5. Benedictus
6. Agnus Dei (in three sections: I, II, III)



Josquin Desprez: Missa Da Pacem for four voices

7. Kyrie
8. Gloria
9. Credo
10. Sanctus
11. Benedictus
12. Agnes Dei