Mass Setting for Weekday Mass (OF)
  • LM0428DS
    Posts: 4
    Our pastorate is holding a special Mass to mark the start of the harvest season and I would like to do a different setting for the parts of the mass than the one we use for Sundays, as the mass is occurring on a Friday. Is there a setting that is both on the simpler side and appropriate for ordinary time?

    (I am coming back to working in sacred music after about 10+ years, so I'm a little out of practice in terms of selecting appropriate music.)
  • MarkB
    Posts: 1,078
    Yes, the ICEL chants in the Roman Missal.
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  • AnimaVocis
    Posts: 148
    Proulx's Missa Simplex. Very singable, very easy. And dignified.

    Of course, the standard is always the ICEL Roman Missal Chants.
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  • Liam
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    Also, for future reference, David Hurd's (not Bob Hurd) New Plainsong Mass. The original was designed to be so simple it could be memorized easily to be sung by congregations a cappella, and the update for the 2011 Missal edition in the same spirit. I applaud all worthy efforts to supply such music for the Ordinary that the absence of an accompanist does not deprive the congregation of the ability to sing the Ordinary.
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  • Bobby Bolin
    Posts: 419
    Danish Mass would be great for this
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  • irishtenoririshtenor
    Posts: 1,320
    Horst Buchholz's Mass of St Francis is good
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  • MatthewRoth
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    I applaud all worthy efforts to supply such music for the Ordinary that the absence of an accompanist does not deprive the congregation of the ability to sing the Ordinary.


    Maybe my congregation is special but we mostly have chant ordinaries (excepting feasts on Sunday going forward and occasionally during the week). Yes, they’re accompanied, except for Mass XVIII, but it would not be the end of the world if the organ was removed. In fact we did IV for the first time on Holy Thursday this year, so the Sanctus and Agnus were a capella. It went very well.

    Now it takes years and years to get there.

    For the future: Gregorian Masses X, XII, and XIII come to mind for special occasions where you may or may not have an organist. The Gloria (like in X) is by far the hardest, but it’d be worth learning…
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