I'm looking to make a list of recordings that were done for ENGLISH Mass Ordinaries composed in the period between 1964 and 1968 (free online recordings are best, but information about other recordings is also welcome).
I'm currently generating something from Worldcat. I'll post here when I'm done. I'm not finding anything online, and wouldn't really expect that somebody is digitizing recordings of obsolete Mass settings. There may be some things on Internet Archive though.
Procedure: WorldCat search on Mass, dates 1964-1968, Language English, Medium: Sound Recordings and Music. Then fish the good stuff out of the obviously inappropriate.
A lot of this is either one-off recording of events, or promo recordings from publishers. It skews wildly toward folk-mass stuff; I would have expected more from GIA or even J. Fischer. None of it was intentionally collected; this would be the sort of thing that was added years after the fact as part of a donation. As such, it doesn't give a full picture of what actually came out. Also, much of this is from physical-card days and data is limited. I think we're good for language, but it's always a problem for this period, because of bad cataloging; the language field is supposed to refer to the language of the sung text, but if the liner notes or score captions were in English, it would often get catalogued as "English"
If I were doing this project (and I'm glad you are; please report back), I would apply those search parameters to various databases: Internet Archive, Youtube, Spotify maybe. Another idea would be to identify the composers active, through a score search or something like Ken Canedo's Keep the Fire Burning: the Folk Mass Revolution, and then do composer searches in search engines. A lot of this will be in archival collections and thus not have real library records. It's a long dirty slog, but somebody should do it, and it shouldn't be me because I'm allergic to post-conciliar music. And then there's the problem of actually getting the recordings.
Oops, I just noticed that you were looking for "COMPOSED BETWEEN" as opposed to "recorded between". That's a harder thing, because an item might have been written in 68 but not come out until 69 or 70, and there's no easy way to filter that info. But it's a pretty safe bet that nobody was recording transitional-Mass music when the new Missal was upcoming or out.
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