Favorite English Language Metrical Gloria settings
  • CeciliaChuck
    Posts: 11
    Which metrical, English language Gloria settings have you had the best luck with in parishes? The Heritage Mass Gloria has gotten a bit tired where I'm at currently, so I'm looking to introduce something new in the coming year(ish).
    We work off weekly printed worship orders and have no hymnal, so publisher doesn't matter. I'd also take those " technically un-metered but pass as metered" options.
  • irishtenoririshtenor
    Posts: 1,325
    Here are a few:
    --A New Mass for Congregations by Carroll T. Andrews
    --Mass of St. Francis by Horst Buchholz
    --Missa Simplex by Richard Proulx (O'Connor)
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  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
    Posts: 5,193
    From my Ascension Mass:   Congregation melody score (1 page), organ & melody score (2 pages), organ & SATB choir score (6 pages), MP3 sound file.

    Scott Turkington has used this, transposed up to C major, with his youth choir for several years.

    2b-Glory to God in the highest-cong.pdf
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    Organ-Glory to God in the highest.pdf
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    2b-Glory to God in the highest.pdf
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    2b-Glory to God in the highest-320kbps.mp3
    6M
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  • sdtalley3sdtalley3
    Posts: 263
    @CHGiffen

    Very excellent Charles!
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  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
    Posts: 5,193
    Here is a recording of the Holy Family Church youth choir singing the "Glory to God in the highest" (in C major) from the CD Sacred Music at Holy Family Church, St. Louis Park, Minnesota, Scott Turkington, director.
    09 Glory to God-Holy Family Youth Choir.mp3
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    Thanked by 2CeciliaChuck sdtalley3
  • CeciliaChuck
    Posts: 11
    @irishtenor I totally forgot about the New Mass for Congregations, thanks for joggling my memory there...

    And thanks for sharing your setting @CHGiffen, that's a real nice option - it's especially refreshing to hear something in three that doesn't end up sounding like a drinking song!
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  • lmassery
    Posts: 422
    I like the Mass of Wisdom gloria by Janco. Mass of St Frances Cabrini by Keil is also great.
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  • rich_enough
    Posts: 1,048
    Missa pro editione tertia by Chris Mueller (CGM).
  • JaredOstermann
    Posts: 488
    Anyone is welcome to use/reprint mine (adapted from an Austrian Marian hymn, Wunderschoen Praechtige)

    I think the Carroll T. Andrews Gloria adapted to the new text fairly well, so that's worth a look. I also like the Richard Fitzgerald Mass in Honor of St. Cecilia:
    https://www.ilpmusic.org/category/MassofStCecilia.html


    Gloria - Wunderschoen Praechtige.pdf
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    Gloria - Ostermann.png
    1471 x 2188 - 481K
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