Missa L'homme armé a 5 (Palestrina)

Missa L'Homme armé is a setting of the mass by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Scholars suspect that Palestrina composed it during the 1560s, and it was published in 1570 and consists of five movements. It is scored for Cantus, Altus, Tenor, Quintus (Tenor II) and Bassus. A sixth voice, Cantus II, is added for the final Agnus Dei. Palestrina uses the Mixolydian version (Mode VII) of the L'homme armé melody as the Cantus Firmus for this setting. It should not be confused with his second setting, Missa L'homme armé @ 4, which was published in 1582 in the collection Missarum Liber Quartus.

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