Written by: Guillaume de Machaut
Stylistic period: Middle Ages
Form: Ternary
Agnus Dei from the Notre Dame Mass features a vocal timbre. It has a very embellished melody with lots of highs and lows. The harmony is very full and colorful with its constant interaction with harmonies playing with each other and its repetitive theme. The dynamics feature lots of grand crescendos and sudden diminuendos. It has a polyphonic texture and a slow rhythm. Some characteristics that let us know this is from the middle ages is that it only features vocal music as well as that its religious based.
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