Beethoven: Missa SolemnisCambridge University Press, 29. nov 1991 - 118 pages The Missa Solemnis is a document of extraordinary richness from the last decades of Beethoven's creative life. In this accessible guide, William Drabkin considers the work as an expression of the most celebrated text of the Roman Catholic faith and as an example from a tradition of Mass settings in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Austria. The opening chapters present various critical perspectives on the Missa Solemnis and chart the history of its composition, first performances, and publication. But, above all, the work itself is considered in detail, including the overall design, connections between the movements, the orchestration, word painting, and programmatic elements. |
Contents
Composition performance and publication history | 11 |
publication performance | 17 |
Kyrie | 31 |
Gloria | 43 |
Credo | 52 |
Sanctus | 67 |
The second Osanna | 80 |
The beginning of the Dona | 87 |
37 | 91 |
The Coda | 94 |
46 | 104 |
117 | |
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Common terms and phrases
Agnus Agnus Dei Allegro alto Artaria Austrian mass autograph score bass bassoon Bb major Beet Beethoven beginning Benedictus cappella theme cello choral chorus Christe clarinet closing fugue coda composer composition contrast Credo cresc Crucifixus D major dexteram Patris Dona nobis pacem earlier entries example exposition final fugal fugal textures fugato fugue subject G major germinal motive Gloria and Credo harmony Haydn's home key homo factus horns hoven's idea incarnatus instruments interrupted cadence Kyrie Laudamus marked melodic minor bar miserere nobis Missa solemnis motif movement oboe opening oratorio Osanna outline passage phrase plagal cadence Pleni Praeludium progression Quoniam recapitulation rhythmic Riezler ritornello sacred music Sanctus second Osanna solo violin solo voices soloists sonata form soprano statements staves structure subdominant suggests symphony tenor solo thematic Theresienmesse third timpani tollis peccata tonality tonic tradition transition trombones troppo trumpets and timpani violin woodwind words
References to this book
Beethoven after Napoleon: Political Romanticism in the Late Works Stephen Rumph Limited preview - 2004 |