Four-voice motet.
Sources: Machaut Manuscripts A B E & G
Tu qui gregem tuum ducis,
Opera fac veri ducis,
Nam ducere et non duci,
Hoc competit vero duci.
Dux prudentium consilio
Ducat nec sit in ottio
Debetque dux anteire,
Ductus autem obedire;
Sed si ductor nescit iter,
Ambo pereunt leviter.
Nam ambulat absque luce
Qui ducitur ceco duce,
Sed qui habet verum ducem
Omni hora habet lucem,
Et ille bene ducitur
Qui a nullo seducitur.
Unde qui ducum ductor es,
Contere nunc seductores,
Et taliter nos deducas,
Ut ad pacem nos perducas.
Plange regni republica!
Tua gens ut scismatica
Desolatur;
Nam pars eius est iniqua
Et altera sophistica
Reputatur.
De te mondo non curatur,
Inimicis locus datur
Franduletur,
Tui status deturpatur;
Sua virtus augmentatur
Nunc potentur.
Te rexerunt imprudenter,
Licet forte innocenter
Tui cari.
Sed amodo congaudenter
Te facient et potenter,
Deo dante, dominari.
Apprehende arma et scutum et exurge.
Cantus C 9626
Le Jugement du Roi de Navarre
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard, dir.
Rec.: 1988
ECM "New Series" 1823
Machaut: Motets
Hilliard Ensemble
Rec.: 2001
Glossa Platinum 32110
Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame
Graindelavoix - Björn Schmelzer
Rec.: 2015
Hyperion 68417 [CD]
Machaut: The fount of grace
The Orlando Consort
Rec.: 2022
Philips SAL 3722
[LP]
Music from the 100 Years War
Musica Reservata - John Beckett, dir.
Rec.: 1969
Renaissance der Renaissance
3.108 [CDx3]
Machaut: 7 Isorhythmic sacred motets / Dufay: Complete Isorhythmic
motets, 7 Cantilena motets
Helga Weber Ensemble
Rec.: 1990-1991
Signum SIGCD 011
Guillaume de Machaut Motet and Music from the Ivrea Codex
The Clerks' Group - Edward Wickham, dir.
Rec.: 1998
Telefunken Das Alte Werk
SAWT B-9566 [LP]
Guillaume de Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame und Motetten
Capella antiqua München - Konrad Ruhland, dir.
Rec.: 1970:
Zig-Zag Territoires ZZT 021002 [CDx2]
Machaut - Les Motets
Ensemble Musica Nova
Rec.: 2002
Please see the Machaut index page for an introduction, discussion of methodology, and notes on this project.
Pierre-F. Roberge Todd M. McComb