(parish budget spent on musicians)
~ Not terribly interested in most of Gounod, Saint-Saens, or other syrupy-leaning setting
Please review that thought from time to time, and ask yourself if it is right. It takes me weeks of work to write music, it takes you hours to prepare it. You are to be paid, I not to be paid? I don't have problems with composers and editors offering free music, but I do have problems with professional musicians seeking free music exclusively.
Ah, the Golden Age of the Low Mass with motets! Charpentier is the special case and his ordinaries are listed here. The Requiem H7 is very beautiful with only organ bc and very mixed-choir friendly tessiaturas.French Baroque. Excellent reminder of under appreciated music, IMO. Heady and sumptuous. Contrapuntal satisfying.
While there is much available nowadays that is both good and free, there is much more that is good and not free.
Golden Age of the Low Mass with motets! Charpentier is the special case and his ordinaries are listed here. The Requiem H7 is very beautiful with only organ bc and very mixed-choir friendly tessiaturas.
Many of the works on CPDL are not readily available elsewhere. It is not a matter of only going for the free stuff, many of those compositions haven't been in print for years.
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