Da Gagliano: Missa in Assumptione Beatae Marice Virginis
Marco da Gagliano
Da Gagliano: Missa in Assumptione Beatae Marice Virginis
This work is Gagliano’s most interesting large-scale sacred composition. Though still under the influence of Palestrina’s immortal lessons, this mass is characterised by a succinct and masterful interweaving of the counterpoint which, rather than muddying the texture with intricate solutions so dear to the hearts of certain northern composers, instead ennobles the soft cantabile character of the single voices.
Any contribution on the part of instruments is lacking, although a performance with an organ playing a basso seguente part would be completely legitimate and in keeping with the widely documented performance practice of the seventeenth century.
The resemblance of the initial theme with the Gregorian antiphon Virgo prudentissima (or indeed others, above all Pueri hebraeorum), sung for the Feast of the Ascension, an occasion of particular importance to a church dedicated to the Madonna, makes it suitable to a hypothetical liturgical reconstruction for a Marian feast.
This work is Gagliano’s most interesting large-scale sacred composition. Though still under the influence of Palestrina’s immortal lessons, this mass is characterised by a succinct and masterful interweaving of the counterpoint which, rather than muddying the texture with intricate solutions so dear to the hearts of certain northern composers, instead ennobles the soft cantabile character of the single voices.
Any contribution on the part of instruments is lacking, although a performance with an organ playing a basso seguente part would be completely legitimate and in keeping with the widely documented performance practice of the seventeenth century.
The resemblance of the initial theme with the Gregorian antiphon Virgo prudentissima (or indeed others, above all Pueri hebraeorum), sung for the Feast of the Ascension, an occasion of particular importance to a church dedicated to the Madonna, makes it suitable to a hypothetical liturgical reconstruction for a Marian feast..
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Frescobaldi, Girolamo Alessandro
Fiori Musicali
Da Gagliano, Giovanni Battista
Gaudeamus omnes
Da Gagliano, Marco
Mass
Anonymous
Famulorum tuorum, quaesumus Domine
Gregorian Chant for the Dead
Da Gagliano, Marco
Hodie Maria ad coelos ascendit
Anonymous
Gregorian Chant for the Dead
Da Gagliano, Marco
Mass
Ave Maria gratia plena
Anonymous
Vere dignum et Iustum est [Medieval]
Da Gagliano, Marco
Mass
Frescobaldi, Girolamo Alessandro
Toccata No. 4
Anonymous
Pater noster*
Pax Domini
Da Gagliano, Marco
Mass
Quae est ista quae ascendit
Anonymous
Postcommunio
Ite missa est
Frescobaldi, Girolamo Alessandro
Toccata quinta, "sopra i pedali, e senza"
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