Kyrie from Missa Praeter Rerum Seriem by Cipriano de Rore (c. 1515 - 1565)

I tried a new technique at finding a piece of music and listening to it this time around.  I picked the composer on Naxos but then I let my daughter pick which CD and which song from it.  She ended up finding this beautiful Kyrie form a composer who is more famous for his madrigals than his masses (he only wrote about five masses).  My daughter then proceeded to dance around the room calling this good ballet music (my daughter is five).  The music is fairly melismatic although with the overlapping of the different voices (many of which are imitating one voice or another) it gives the overall effect of almost always hearing the text in one voice or another.  Above all of the nuts and bolts of the piece it is very pretty and I'm glad my daughter picked it.  You can still trace the text, and the form of the piece back to the original plainchant.  It is amazing the musical history that these masses carry with them.