OCP GIA Mass Setting
  • Casavant Organist
    Posts: 805
    What would you recommend as a mass setting from OCP, preferably included in Journeysongs 3?
  • NihilNominisNihilNominis
    Posts: 1,023
    To be honest, Heritage Mass.

    Easy to learn, dignified, and durable.
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  • irishtenoririshtenor
    Posts: 1,325
    Yep. Heritage Mass. It may not be exceptional music, but it's worth using ahead of almost anything else that OCP has come out with.
  • j13rice
    Posts: 36
    Mass of St Gregory the Great by Luke Mayernik is wonderful and published by OCP, but I don't believe it's in Journeysongs 3. Belmont Mass by Christopher Walker, a plainchant setting, is probably the most solid choice in Journeysongs 3.
  • Casavant Organist
    Posts: 805
    What about Belmont Mass? I like the Heritage mass but I don't like the ICEL chants and I kinda wanted a chant setting. What do you think?
  • WittManWilsonWittManWilson
    Posts: 76
    I love Belmont Mass. I used it with congregation before, and they sang it very well. The Gloria is very easy to sing, and my older congregation picked up on it quickly.
  • melofluentmelofluent
    Posts: 4,160
    There is and has not been since Proulx's Oecumenica a setting from OCP I would or have actually used. It is their Achille's heel.
    Amendment- for contemporary ensemble I have and do use Hurd's Santa Clara, and have respect for his Missa Ubi Caritas, tho' it's unwieldy.
  • RevAMG
    Posts: 162
    My preferences, from best...

    1. Mass of St. Frances Cabrini
    2. Heritage Mass
    3. Mass of the Most Holy Trinity
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