The Du cuer je souspier Mass

This chapter focuses in detail on a single example of a Mass cycle which falls between English and continental provenance, the Du cuer je souspier Mass. This cycle is an exceptionally interesting yet enigmatic work which has the distinction, with its full nine-fold troped Kyrie and telescoped Credo, of being perhaps the most English Mass cycle not to have been included in Gareth Curtis and Andrew Wathey’s magnificent handlist of surviving English liturgical works, yet it nonetheless defies simple categorisation. The indicators of provenance either way are fully investigated, alongside a stylistic comparison to perhaps the closest English and continental composers before the conclusion is reached that the work can best be understood as neither fully English nor fully continental.