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Anonymous 4 was an American female a cappella quartet, founded in 1986 [1] and based in New York City.Their main performance genre was medieval music, although later they also premiered works by recent composers such as John Tavener and Steve Reich.
Missa in tempore belli (English: Mass in Time of War) is a setting of the mass by Joseph Haydn.It is catalogued Mass No. 10 [1] in C major (Hob. XXII:9). [1] Known also as the Paukenmesse due to the dramatic use of timpani, it is one of the most popular of his fourteen mass settings.
The oratorio's structure follows the liturgical year: Part I corresponding with Advent, Christmas, and the life of Jesus; Part II with Lent, Easter, the Ascension, and Pentecost; and Part III with the end of the church year—dealing with the end of time.
Start of Gaspar van Weerbeke's Missa brevis in Choirbook, D-Ju MS 21. Missa brevis (Latin for 'short Mass'; plural: Missae breves) usually refers to a Mass composition that is short because part of the text of the Mass ordinary that is usually set to music in a full Mass is left out, or because its execution time is relatively short.
The Missa in angustiis (Mass for troubled times), commonly known as the Nelson Mass (Hob. XXII/11), is a Mass setting by the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn . It is one of the six masses written near the end of his life that are seen as a culmination of Haydn's composition of liturgical music .
British composer Peter Maxwell Davies: parody mass Missa super l'homme armé [10] (1968, revised 1971). [11] Welsh composer Karl Jenkins drew heavily on L'homme armé for his 1999 mass, The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace, composed for SATB chorus, soloists and symphonic orchestra and dedicated to the victims of the 1998-1999 Kosovo War.
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St. Cecilia Mass is the common name of a solemn mass in G major by Charles Gounod, composed in 1855 and scored for three soloists, mixed choir, orchestra and organ. The official name is Messe solennelle en l’honneur de Sainte-Cécile, in homage of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music. The work was assigned CG 56 in the catalogue of the ...