--- product_id: 27020792 title: "Missa Cuiusvis Toni" brand: "ockeghem,johannes" price: "€ 46.85" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/27020792-missa-cuiusvis-toni store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # Missa Cuiusvis Toni **Brand:** ockeghem,johannes **Price:** € 46.85 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Missa Cuiusvis Toni by ockeghem,johannes - **How much does it cost?** € 46.85 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/27020792-missa-cuiusvis-toni) ## Best For - ockeghem,johannes enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted ockeghem,johannes brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description ## Images ![Missa Cuiusvis Toni - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41C6qe0CMbL.jpg) ![Missa Cuiusvis Toni - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51WHpUot8RL.jpg) ![Missa Cuiusvis Toni - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51G3IJdgWKL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ You Really Need to Trust Me Here ... *by G***O on Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2011* ... because I'm urging you to get, by hook crook or cash down, an expensive pair of CDs on which the same music, a polyphonic mass by Johannes Ockeghem (1420-1497), is performed four times. That's right, the same mass! Missa Cuiusvis Toni, which translates as "Mass in Any Mode". But Ockeghem is no ordinary polyphonist; he's the Newton or Darwin of polyphony, one of the foundational composers of European music. And this is no ordinary mass; it's a mathematical cathedral. Just as a great gothic cathedral welters in complexities, spires and arches and sculpture in every nook, yet astounds the visiter with its unity of grandeur, that's the effect of this music. And once you grasp the intricacy of its structure, you'll surely doubt that it's really possible; it's as if Ockeghem had played musical chess with four mainframe computers and won all four games.The four "tones" or "modes" in this musical vocabulary are derived from the practices of liturgical chant. It will be easiest for a novice in polyphony to understand them by going to a piano or any instrument and playing them as simple scales, but without using the 'black' keys. Play from D to d. That's the protus tone. E to e is the deuterus. F to f is tritus, and G to g is tetradus. As with modern 'major' and 'minor' scales, the difference is in the placement of the half steps. But wait, it's not quite so simple, specially when you introduce the issues of consonance and dissonance implicit in all polyphony. One of the rewards you'll get from buying these CDs is that the notes include an ample and intelligible explanation of matters like modality, solmisation, and the ever-tricky 'ficta,' the flats and sharps that must be inserted in the modal procession of notes.Ockeghem's Missa Cuiusvis Toni places the all the notes on the usual lines and spaces of the musical staff, but it omits the 'clef' sign, meaning that the 'final' note can be interpreted as D, E, F, or G. You WILL be astonished at what results from that simple choice: music of profoundly different emotional color, or affect. Ockeghem was a theologian in music, a thinker of the rationality of Aquinas as well as the mysticism of Eckhart. The order-in-intricacy of this music is essentially an assessment of the Order of the Universe, the Ptolmaic universe with its nested spheres.The fact that it's gloriously beautiful wasn't irrelevant to Ockeghem, either. Earthly beauty reflected Divine beauty in his view. For a listener like me, who has rejected the theology that Ockeghem cherished, it's the beauty of the music that survives, but I think my perception of such beauty is Spinozan. In Ockeghem's mastery of musical "number," I hear the intricacy of physical reality, from quantum to galaxy. So it's in fact the "music of the spheres" after all.Ensemble Musica Nova performs the four versions of Ockeghem's missa two-on-a-part, with women singing the discantus. They do it deliciously -- fine balance of voices, faultless ensemble, faultless tuning even of the crunchy dissonances, and superb linear independence of their four polyphonic voices. They've also managed what few editors and fewer performers have done; that is, they've grappled with the diverse modes and persuasively solved the enigmas. Even if you have the recording of this mass in the 'phrygian' mode of E by The Clerks' Group, or the performance by Capella Alamire, also only in the E mode, you will be astounded by Ensemble Musica Nova's accomplishment, both as singers and as musicologists. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ockeghem's "four-in-one" Mass in all its facets. *by A***. on Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2012* Since i've learnt about the existence of such a Work i have badly desired to find an Ensemble that had recorded it in all the four main Gregorian Modes (Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian and Myxo-Lydian). Immediately after have been known there was, i decided to purchase it, choosing Amazon.uk because i was sure it would have been sent me in a reasonable time.Renaissance Composers are known to have been probably the most technically advanced of all Times, and surely Ockeghem is among the highest "virtuosi" of Renaissance Art of Counterpoint: among his Works the celebre 36-Parts Canonic Motet "Deo Gratia" and the Missa "Prolationum", in which everyone of the four Voice sing in a different Division of Time. This Mass presents a similar challenge, being written in such a way it can be sung in four different Modes resulting harmonious in the same way.The Ensemble "Musica Nova" sung with perfect intonation, deserving us the good surprise female singers for the Soprano part has been called. The only problem with the performance is the use of French pronunciation for Latin, being sometimes annoying. But that's a minor thing, and i personally find difficult to imagine a good CD collection without this one in its rows. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars *by Z***K on Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2016* Music of the sublime.... nothing more needs to be said!!! --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.pt/products/27020792-missa-cuiusvis-toni](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/27020792-missa-cuiusvis-toni) --- *Product available on Desertcart Portugal* *Store origin: PT* *Last updated: 2026-04-23*