A digitized version of a published edition (1701) is available on the website of the Bibliothèque nationale de France:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9059803g.r=henry+du+mont+messes.langEN

You can download the entire file as a PDF by clicking on "Download/Print" on the page.

Thanks so much for the answers! This is very helpful!
Ted, thanks for the offer; I was able to download it from the site that Protasius gave me. Thanks to Pedro as well.

I am also looking for the organ accompaniment that is played in the recording below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKxYo8EjjPs

Does anyone know how I would get ahold of that?
(As a general rule, I MUCH prefer chant to be a cappella, but this organ accompaniment is very unusually well done!)

Thanks, everyone, for your help!

From the website for Schola Sainte Cecile here is a booklet for High Mass that contains a modern notation transcription of the Messe Royale du premier ton of Henri du Mont: LINK. This transcription matches the 1701 manuscript from the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Interesting to compare to the Liber Usualis version: Aside from the obvious rythmic differences, there are a number of sharps absent in the Solesmes version, and in places the melodies are different. The Solesmes melody is very similar to certain Graduales of the 18th and 19th centuries (check google books), so there's definitely a tradition behind it.

I posted this elsewhere, but am going to post it again here, since it's on topic. The Dumont masses are in the works cited. Rob


While investigating the masses of Dumont, I came across some other mass settings in a quasi-plainchant style.

The first is Cinq messes en plainchant musical. I found it easy to download from this site
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9059803g

The second is in Google Books, and is Nouveau recueil de messes anciennes et nouvelles en plain-chant ordinaire, and it is in Google Books. A link MIGHT be
http://books.google.com/books?id=H7O6e3RjSgAC&source=gbs_similarbooks
If that doesn't work, plug in the name. You may need to hover over the red
ebook free button to find where to download the pdf.

I posted about the second of these books on a Yahoo Gregorian Group and got this response:

Hi Rob; I have had a quick look; it is very interesting and practical music.

I notice that the last mass is in time (i.e. 4/4) if you make the square with stem a half note, the regular square a quarter note, and the diamond an eighth. Sharps and flats are marked; clefs are C and F (F has the extra blob on the left). And we have unison, duos and trios.

I think we will try some of these at my church; we have a small but good choir. probably only kyrie, sanctus and agnus for now.

In the triple time Salvum fac that opens the collection, stemmed note would equal dotted quarter, diamond = eighth, square = quarter. Small notes are like graces in baroque music. Two notes same pitch right beside one another are like a tied note. Sharps are x.

In the plainchant masses it appears that the rhythmic notations is essentially giving longs and shorts in accordance with the stress of the latin syllables--as is found in other post-tridentine chant sources (not my area of knowledge) so again a stem is long, a square is normal and a diamond is short; but I wouldn't do that in a mechanical way.
This type of notation also appears in the Merbecke Mass that was mentioned.

William Renwick
School of the Arts
McMaster University
Hamilton Ontario CANADA L8S 4M2 http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~renwick/wr.htm

I hope these will be of use, and of interest, to those who have been looking for more chant ordinaries.

Of course, these aren't ancient melodies; those are scattered all over in libraries where many have never been cataloged, so we just have to wait for scholars to unearth them and prepare performing editions!

Rob
Portland, Oregon

Aren't there six masses by Dumont? Rob

Do you know where 4-6 may be found? Thanks.

The Missa Regia is in the Liber Usualis that MusicaSacra.com provides? What pages? I'm having trouble finding it.
thanks

There are (for historical interest) other Graduals that have them in the pre-Solesmes Ratisbon/Medicean quares on the CCW/Lelande Rare Books library.

Geremia, the Polish 1957 Kyriale (from the Wadowice Institute?) at CCW has the accompaniments for three Du Mont masses. Missa Regia I is on p. 98, Missa Regia II on p. 104, and Missa Regia III on p. 111, in case you need them.

If you're looking for the modern notation for DuMont's Missa Regia I, Arthur Connick posted a nice one above here from the Schola St. Cecile.

Also, there is a pdf of the chant setting of Du mont's Missa Regia I at the Schola Bellarmina website here.

The only place I know of to find the other DuMont Masses is the 17th c. Gallican book Salieri mentioned and of course Salieri's beautifully typeset arrangements in English at this thread.

Hope this helps. I believe the Schola St. Cecile also has a handout with DuMont's Missa Regia III (6th tone) but now I can't find it.

Dumont's three Masses in chant notation found!

I have recently downloaded Mass and Vespers (1958) fromhttp://www.musicasacra.com/books/massandvespers.pdf and, toward the end, Dumont's three Masses (Messe Royale, Messe du 2e ton & Messe du 6e ton) are given in Gregorian notation, first in a 14 page supplement with headings in Latin, then in a 14 page supplement with headings in French. On my pdf, they appear on pages 2,177-2,206 of 2,288.

I wonder why his other two plainchant-style Masses passed out of favour?

These are very well done. I personally prefer the second form of the Kyrie that you print.

The Agnus Dei of Dumont's Messe du 4e ton seems to have a pleasant melody…

That's because mode IV always has a pleasant melody.

My guess is that the Mode V Mass probably fell out of favor because the Missa de Angelis (also mode V) was more wide spread - why have to mode V Masses in the Kyriale? Again just a guess - to my eye/ear both of these Masses (IV and V) should've been included in the French appendix to the Kyriale.

Incidentally, it seems that the Credo of the Mode IV Mass is actually in Mode V, interesting.

I do apologise - I seem to have missed three sharps (not very Gregorian I know, which is why I omitted them to start with) in Dumont's Messe du 5e ton - they should have been notated in gabc code with a # sign:

(i) The third note (fa) on the second syllable of Christe should have a sharp sign;
(ii) In the last Kyrie, the third-last note (fa) on the third syllable of Kyrie should have a sharp sign;
(iii) The fa on the first syllable of Dominus in Tu solus Dominus in the Gloria should have a sharp sign.

The Messe du 4e ton also has one sharp sign, on the note so, sung to the syllable lé of the first Christe eléison.

I will correct the code and post the corrected versions...

Dumont, Messe du 5e ton, Gloria, and Messe du 4e ton, Kyrie, corrected to include sharps (omitted above):

The choir for our EF Mass sang the Messe Royale (but for the Credo) for the first time for the Assumption; and this Sunday, rather than attempt the full Gregorian setting of the Alleluia, they used an adaptation of the Ite, matched with the verse set to a psalm-tone (the latter sung with a drone, thus combining something Baroque with something Eastern)...

I look forward to the organ arrangement; and I suppose that if we are to dress Dumont in Solesmes-style notation, dumping sharps is the way to go.

Some googling turned up a reference to his Messe du cinquième ton in a volume that credited some of its contents to the work of Reims-Cambrai commission, implying it was published after the Reims-Cambrai Gradual of 1851; so it appears the Dumont Messe du 5e ton was sung as late as the mid- 19th C.

I attach a pdf of the fauxbourdon you mention, which I managed to snip from the book to which you linked. Is it not basically the mode 1 psalm-tone with harmonization?

I just came across this thread. I like the Messe Royale. When I look at the YouTube video posted above, the chant includes the lines and dots. However, the Liber Usualis version posted above does not. Does anyone have this Mass set like the video posted above?

@Patricia Cecilia

Our Friends may be able to help, https://schola-sainte-cecile.com

@tomjaw I have a friend who knows their director well; I should have thought of asking her to contact him. I have the pieces of the various DuMont masses that are at the Schola Sainte Cecile website.

@a_f_hawkins On first listen, it does not appear to be the same (only the Kyrie and Agnus Dei of that particular harmonization are on YouTube, and the Agnus Dei is definitely different). I have the Tozer harmonization from IMSLP and will use that if I cannot find the other. Thank you!

I am so grateful for this thread. I recently stumbled across the (infamous) recording of DuMont's first messe and am quite taken with it (weird interpretation aside) as it is eminently singable and approachable. I am going to propose to my pastor that we learn it after Lent as our new ordinary-time setting.

For those interested, here are the scores of Henry du Mont's "Royal Mass in the second tone": https://schola-sainte-cecile.com/wp-content/2020/11/Henry-du-Mont-Messe-royale-du-IInd-ton.pdf
Keep in mind those Masses are meant to be sung for great feasts.

Keep in mind those Masses are meant to be sung for great feasts.

Every Mass is a great Feast! ;-)

Do you want du Mont, or Corrette, or both.
If you wish to PM me your address I could mail it/them to you.

I have been asked to produce a Kyriale, and while the main section is complete I also looked at producing a supplement with the Henri Du Mont Masses, and a couple of other items.
Having done this I have a number of questions,
1. The Masses in the first, second and fifth tone are found in a supplement in the back of some Libers, they do not always follow the Cinq Messes (1701) Why?
2. Why are the sharps omitted in the L.U. version?
3. I have sung the premier tone from chant notation, but note that our friends in Paris, use a versions in modern notation... Why?

I have produced the following and would welcome comments or corrections...

Thanks @Josh for the guidance (above) of how to set this style of music, although I have used the original source as well as yours for my transcriptions and so there are some differences.

Here you can find my transcription to modern notation together with its respective harmonization.
https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/18328/du-mont039s-1st-mode-royal-mass-in-modern-notation-with-chords#Item_1