Resources on the Mass in ARMA
ARMA includes resources on the Christian Mass for use in music history and music theory courses, including scores of important settings from chant through the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque eras. The commentaries on several of these settings are useful, particularly the one on the Mass for Christmas Day, which contains a discussion of the order of the Mass, including the Ordinary and the Proper, along with explorations of specific elements. When your students encounter terminology specific to the Mass, they may find ARMA's Glossary to be a useful starting point.
Most importantly, ARMA includes a number of Masses in various styles:
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Medieval (including chant)
- Anonymous: Mass for Christmas Day
- Anonymous: Mass for Easter Sunday
- Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame Renaissance
- Anonymous: Missa Caput: Sanctus
- de Vivanco: Missa sexti toni
- Du Fay: Missa l'homme armé
- Du Fay: Missa se la face ay pale
- Isaac: Missa de apostolis: Kyrie
- Josquin: Missa Fortuna desperata
- Josquin: Missa Pange lingua
- La Rue: Missa pro defunctis: Introitus
- Morales: Missa Quaeramus cum pastoribus: Kyrie
- Obrecht: Missa Fortuna desperata: Gloria and Credo
- Ockeghem: Missa Fors seulement: Kyrie
- Ockeghem: Missa Prolationum
- Palestrina: Missa Dum complerentur: Gloria
- Palestrina: Missa Lauda Sion
- Palestrina: "Pope Marcellus" Mass
- Power: Missa Alma redemptoris mater: Gloria and Credo
- Taverner: Western Wind Mass
- Victoria: Missa O magnum mysterium: Kyrie
- Victoria: Missa pro defunctis: Agnus Dei and Versa est in luctum Other Works
- Mozart: Requiem, K. 626, "Requiem in aeternam" [Introit]
- Frescobaldi: Toccata avanti La Messa della Domenica
In addition to these scores, ARMA contains commentaries on selected Mass settings:
- Anonymous: Mass for Christmas Day (Commentary) by Emily Laurance, et al.
- Dufay: Missa Se la face ay pale (Commentary) by Emily Laurance, et al.
- Josquin: Missa Pange lingua (Commentary) by Emily Laurance, et al.
- Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame, Kyrie (Commentary) by Emily Laurance, et al.
- Ockeghem: Missa prolationum, Kyrie (Commentary) by Emily Laurance, et al.
- Palestrina: Pope Marcellus Mass (Commentary) by Emily Laurance, et al.
- Victoria: Missa pro defunctis (Commentary) by Allen Scott
Please use the general page for links to other Resource Pages. Additional materials are in preparation and will be available when they are ready..
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