Requiem Mass for SMALL Choir
  • eboydston1
    Posts: 14
    Good morning, I would LOVE some suggestions regarding a Requiem setting, in English for a small choir. Thank you in advance!!
  • irishtenoririshtenor
    Posts: 1,325
    Can you tell us a little more about exactly what you're looking for?
    --Setting of the ordinary only?
    --Propers, too?
    --Chant?
    --Metrical?
    --Harmonies?
    --Accompaniment?
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  • eboydston1
    Posts: 14
    Oh, that would be helpful! SATB - something that reflects the Anglican Patrimony, as we are an Ordinariate parish.
  • eboydston1
    Posts: 14
    no organ, unless it is the best option.
  • CGM
    Posts: 697
    Do you mean a setting of the
    — Mass Ordinary (Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei)
    — Mass Propers (Requiem aeternam at Introit, Lux aeterna at Communion, perhaps In Paradisum at the end, etc.)
    — both Ordinary and Propers?
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  • PhilipPowell
    Posts: 116
    Removed (didn’t see the English requirement, sorry).
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  • CGM
    Posts: 697
    Perhaps the Short Communion Service of Batten would work for the Ordinary. You'd have to cut out the brief "Amen" at the end of the Sanctus, but otherwise the text matches exactly with the Ordinariate's formulation.
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  • GerardH
    Posts: 461
    Henry Walford Davies' A Short Requiem may deviate too far from the traditional texts for you to use
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  • DL
    Posts: 80
    NB, the Divine Worship requiem also alters the Agnus Dei (to grant them rest/grant them eternal rest).
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  • eboydston1
    Posts: 14
    Thank you, I will look up the settings! I apologize for the delayed response, we have work being done at the house and internet has been less than dependable.
  • eboydston1
    Posts: 14
    Holy smokes!! The Davies is GORGEOUS!!! thank you! (Lest we Forget)
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  • Chaswjd
    Posts: 268
    There is the Plainchant Gradual of Palmer, Burgess and Shields. It sets the English text to the Latin chant melodies. You can find the requiem chants under All Souls Day.

    It can be found here:

    https://media.churchmusicassociation.org/books/plainchant_gradual_3-4.pdf
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  • trentonjconn
    Posts: 621
    We have used the Walford Davies De Profundis as a motet for All Souls. It is indeed quite beautiful, as well as fairly straightforward.
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