Mass settings with brass
  • Josaphat1934
    Posts: 11
    Now that I've survived another Christmas, time to start planning for Easter!

    Do you have any recommendations for Mass Ordinary settings with brass? Any time period is fine.
    Only Latin, for use at the TLM.
  • Chaswjd
    Posts: 276
    Why not do a mass like Victoria’s Missa Ave Regina which is for two choirs and have your brass be one of the choirs?
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  • Richard MixRichard Mix
    Posts: 2,826
    We had planned on Hassler's Gloria super Dixit Maria tonight for a St Stephen's Day Mass, only to learn yesterday a priest was unavailable. In the event we performed the rest of the mass (& the (and prelude/postlude/carols) with 10 singers, 3 sackbuts, cornetto & dulzian for a few parishioners who missed the cancellation notice. A awful lot of fun for 45' of rehearsal time!
    Thanked by 3Polyfollia CHGiffen Josaphat1934
  • JT_Fields
    Posts: 17
    Pardon me if this is a dumb question: Is there a common practice of doubling the parts of a polyphonic setting with brass?
  • Richard MixRichard Mix
    Posts: 2,826
    Praetorius is one writer on the subject. Later on you can find independent choirs of instruments in some of Schütz's Opus 2 and the mass movements of Gabrieli.
    Thanked by 1Josaphat1934
  • davido
    Posts: 974
    Fields, you could double with brass, but you better have a really big choir or you won’t hear your singers
  • VocesCapituli
    Posts: 126
    Flor Peeters - Missa Festiva!!! Glorious setting!
    Thanked by 3CHGiffen cmb Josaphat1934
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