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0. L'Homme Armé {anonymous}
I. Kyrie
II. Gloria in excelsis Deo
III. Credo in unum Deum
IV. Sanctus
V. Agnus Dei
The most celebrated compositional fancy in this setting occurs in the third Agnus Dei movement, Dufay's famous "crab canon" [see.in this video]. The tenor voice is given the familiar L'homme armé tune, with a Latin inscription "Cancer eat plenus sed redeat medius," translated "The Crab goes out full but comes back half." Part of the solution to this witty instruction involves rhythmic diminution: the "coming back," or second statement of the melody, should halve all rhythmic values. But the crustacean invocation indicates a further complexity: retrograde motion the first time, as the crab "goes out" walking backwards. Dufay's clever gambit certainly sparked a tradition of competition and compositional challenge in the nascent family of L'homme armé mass settings.