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BTC1093 MISSA BREVIS IN D

for boys' voices and organ, op. 63
Composition date: 24 May 1959
First performance: 22 Jul 1959 >>
Type of performance: Liturgical performance
Location: Westminster Cathedral, London (at a celebration of Mass)
Performance details:

Boys of Westminster Cathedral Choir, George Malcolm org/cond

Genre: Choral
Text: From the Ordinary of the Roman Rite (set in Latin)
Performing forces:

The work calls for a minimum of two and a maximum of three solo trebles.

Duration: 11'
Dedication: 'For George Malcolm and the boys of Westminster Cathedral Choir'

Notes

The plainchant intonation of the 'Gloria', from which much of the work is derived, is from Mass XV - the Ordinary for Commemorations and Ferias of the Christmas season - in the Liber usualis.

Movements

  • 1 Kyrie
  • 2 Gloria
  • 3 Sanctus-Benedictus
  • 4 Agnus Dei

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