Aichinger “Missa de Beata Virgine” - cantus firmus?
  • Felipe Gasper
    Posts: 804
    Does anyone here know this Mass setting?

    http://www2.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Missa_de_Beata_Virgine_(Gregor_Aichinger)

    It looks like a very accessible, rewarding-to-sing setting. What I am wondering is if anyone here recognizes what appear to be cantus firmus lines in the tenor in the 2nd Kyrie, the Benedictus, and bits of the Agnus and Sanctus.

    And/or, is there anything otherwise purely musical in this setting that makes it “Marian”? Or did Aichinger just decide to call it “de Beata Virgine”?
  • Elizabeth Poel
    Posts: 44
    Yes. The polyphony choir in which I sing at St. John the Baptist, Front Royal, VA has sung this Mass three times this season, most recently on Passion Sunday last week, at the EF Mass. The composer is incommunicado, thus I can cast no light on the reason for the title. As for cantus firmus, someone else will have to answer that.
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