Missa Syllabica (1990) Latin Mass Ordinarium for mixed Chorus a Capella by Richard St. Clair Sheet Music for SATB Choir at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Richard St. Clair

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Richard St. Clair

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 38

Arrangement SATB Choir

Publisher Richard St. Clair

Level 4

Product ID 1035826

Genre A Cappella 20th Century

Instruments Choir

Product Description

This Latin Mass on all 5 movements of the Mass Ordinarium (Kyrie - Gloria - Credo - Sanctus/Beneductus - Agnus Dei) owes its title to the fact that with one exception every syllable of the Latin text receives one note of sung music. Of this work, eminent musicologist Willem Elders has commented "It's interesting to see how you have been dealing with a text that in the past has been set by countless composers. It is what could be called a real 'Missa brevis', and I suppose that the cardinals of the Council of Trent in the 16th century might have been very happy with it, apart then from its harmonies, to which they were not yet used." The sound clip is of the first two movements. Stylistically, the music is mostly "tonal" with some more contemporary pandiatonic harmonies, and the rhythms are quite straightforward.

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