Ordinary for Christ the King
  • robertjohnson6211
    Posts: 17
    Dear all,
    What would you recommend as the Ordinary for the Feast of Christ the King, for the Extraordinary Form?
    Thanks,
    Robert
  • tomjaw
    Posts: 2,704
    Mass II or III, or perhaps one of the Henri du Mont Mass settings
  • M. Jackson Osborn
    Posts: 8,368
    If it's plainchant, I'm partial to Pater cuncta.
    If it's polyphony, well -
    Tallis' mass for seven voices
    or
    a grand Monteverdi mass complete with cornets, sackbuts, and all.
    Definitely something with an unmistakable ecclesiastical solemnitas.

    (You don't want an ordinary ordinary for an occasion such as this.)
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  • stulte
    Posts: 355
    Depending on your choir, there's Victoria's Missa Pro Victoria for 9 voices, double-choir.
  • StimsonInRehabStimsonInRehab
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    One of Dumont's Missae Pro Regia. He wrote a few of these; depending on what copy of the Liber you use, they may be in the back of the book.

    OOPS - just saw tom's post!!!

    As far as polyphony, if you have a string quartet, Mozart's Coronation Mass.
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  • M. Jackson Osborn
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    Is there a Latin adaptation of the Willan?
  • Steve CollinsSteve Collins
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    I think the Willan (Communion Setting 2, H-1940) would work well in Latin. I think the folds at St. John Cantius were going to look into copyright permission for such a project.

    There is also a unison Mass of St. Theresa by Willan - in The New St. Basil Hymnal. I'm working on scanning an accompaniment copy for CCW right now.
  • irishtenoririshtenor
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    Depending on what you use on a regular basis and the ability of your choir, I have found that the Missa Tribus Vocibus by Christoph Dalitz + Credo I (or another) works well for a little added solemnity.
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