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Links to Mass settings and other information
This is an information page only. We are not advertising, nor making any judgments about style, quality or suitability for parish use. Forth in Praise can be contacted with enquiries or comments at massmusic@forthinpraise.co.uk
LATEST! At popular request, we repeat the link to the Mass setting based on Christmas carol melodies
The Royal School of Church Music has published another two Mass settings, by Malcolm Archer and Philip Ledger
Evelyn Stell is now making all accompaniments to her Mass music freely available online
We now have links to James MacMillan's revised St Anne's Mass on the Boosey & Hawkes website.
You can find them here and here.
(Be careful, though. The old version is still available. Make sure you are buying the one you want)
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The text itself and the official chant
The sections of the new Mass text which are customarily sung in our parishes - Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Memorial acclamations and Agnus Dei - can be found here.
The full text is at Roman Missal. This is the American bishops' website, hence some American spellings, which will no doubt be amended for UK use.
The official chant of the English version of the new Mass is published in downloadable PDF form by ICEL here.
Forth in Praise has created a staff notation version of the main people's chants of the new Missal:
ICEL chant in staff notation.
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Introduction of music for the new text in Scotland
Roman Missal Scotland is the official Scottish website giving information about the new Missal translation. It is still under construction but some guidance for parish musicians is already in place, including audio files of some of the ICEL chant.
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Introduction of music for the new text in other countries
England and Wales
In England and Wales the new text will be introduced in September 2011. There's also guidance
for composers.
Read about this, and a lot more, here.
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Links to Mass settings, information sites, and publishers
The LINKS section has been reorganised on 7 August into the following groupings:
| New settings | Revised settings | Information sites | Publishers' websites |
This is only part of the now enormous amount of material available on the internet, but many of these links will help further searching. Some of our earlier material has had to be left out, but the old 'Links' section, as updated on 24 July 2011, can be accessed here.
Further news will be posted here as it comes in.
Some new settings
James MacMillan | Mass of Blessed John Henry Newman Specially commissioned for the 2010 Papal visit. Audio files created at that time can be accessed here. |
Margaret Rizza | |
Malcolm Archer | |
Philip Ledger | |
Noel Donnelly | |
Gerry Fitzpatrick | |
Evelyn Stell | |
Tony Giovanazzi | Excerpts from Irish Mass, Hebrides Mass |
Nicola Lawrence |
Revised settings
Bellahouston Gloria from 1982 Papal visit |
The new Memorial Acclamations set to existing hymn tunes and plainchant |
Tony Giovanazzi has revised his St Peter's Mass. Enquiries to massmusic@forthinpraise.co.uk. |
Evelyn Stell has revised the Linlithgow Gloria. |
Information sites
(see also official websites for each country)
Some publishers' websites
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News and views from readers
9 April feedback The questionnaire results following the 9 April Singing Day can be found here.
A reader has asked in a comment whether our choice of settings in Scotland is likely to be restricted. The answer is, of course, that we just don't know yet.
We have to thank readers Triduana and Anne for much of the information on internet Mass settings.
Thanks also to Maureen Bruce for the following note:
Steven Warner publishes his music through World Library Publications. They have a large number of new and revised Mass settings now at http://www.singthenewmass.com/ I am looking just now at his Mass of Charity and Love which is simple, based on a well-recognised tune (Where Charity and Love Prevail) and can cope with no or little accompaniment. It has a nice accessible descant which will suit our tiny Sunday choir and its overall musical "feel" will be very good for Advent and possibly Lent too.
I have reviewed a number of Mass settings, but by no means all, and for me a major deciding factor is the Gloria - the new prayer is quite a bit longer and the words need to scan easily and still sing as a joyful acclamation. I generally prefer Glorias without repeated refrains although Michael Joncas has an uplifting adaptation that may well prove an exception for me...
WLP also has useful resources and books aimed at supporting preparation for introduction of the new Mass for parishes. In addition to the resources that the English bishops are promoting (which is also very good I think).
Maureen
More thanks to indefatigable surfer Anne for the PrayTell information.
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The LINKS section at 24 July 2011
NEW MASS SETTINGS FROM THE WEBThis section will be added to and updated as information comes in. Update 2 July
Noel Donnelly has now completed his Dalreoch Mass with a Kyrie and a Gloria. So far it is not online, but you can find out more about it by emailing massmusic@forthinpraise.co.uk Evelyn Stell's settings have been given their final names: St Michael Gloria and Sanctus, and Linlithgow Sanctus, which will accompany the revision of the existing Linlithgow Gloria. Maeve Logan has added a Gloria to her Mass. PLEASE NOTE Organ and chords versions of all the above are available, in many cases as free email downloads. Contact massmusic@forthinpraise.co.uk Update 14 June
Noel Donnelly has written a Gloria for his Dalreoch Mass. More info soon. A number of accompaniments for the ICEL chant are now on the web. The music pages of the English bishops' website are expanding fast and giving more information on this. American musician Noel Jones is offering free downloads, including chant, here. Forth in Praise is also working on this aspect of the liturgy. Watch this space ... Update 6 May
Settings from England are coming through now. Find out here about the Mass of St Benedict by Margaret Rizza. Update 5 May
Expecting news soon about James MacMillan's St Anne's Mass, which he has revised for the new translation, adding a Gloria. This has been a much-loved setting for many years. More details when we get them. Also to come: a report on the Singing Day on 9 April, which used some music taken from this website. Among the other items were a Mass by Noel Donnelly and a new Gloria by Evelyn Stell. Evelyn's Gloria can be found here. Update 28 March
Great news! The MacMillan Newman Mass will at long last be published at Easter by Boosey & Hawkes. It is expected that a number of English publishers will be bringing out new Mass settings at this time, having gone through the English 'permission to publish' process. More information about this process can be found at the English Liturgy Office website. Organ accompaniments for the official chants are available at Musica Sacra and a keyboard arrangement is promised at Liturgical Press Update 5 March
More chanted Masses from America: quite a number on the Corpus Christi Watershed website .Some more music from composers in our own archdiocese: a Sanctus from Livingston composer Maeve Logan, and a Sanctus from Edinburgh composer Tony Giovanazzi. Update 24 February
News of what is probably a very beautiful setting, based on the Missa de Angelis , by noted English composer Roxanna Panufnik. Read more here. Roxanna Panufnik's own website gives more details of her work, bits of which you can listen to, such as the Gloria from her Westminster Mass. As yet there doesn't seem to be a clip from the new Missa de Angelis Mass, as far as we can tell. Update 13 February
A Gloria from Edinburgh composer Tony Giovanazzi. Some settings of the new Memorial acclamations using existing hymn tunes and plainchant melodies. Here is another resources website, from the Praytell blog, with lots of links. Update 10 February
From Scotland, two Sanctus settings by Evelyn Stell and music for the new Memorial Acclamations by Maeve Logan. And yet another American publisher with much to offer, Liturgical Press Modal Mass by Schenk and Taylor. Chanted setting by Richard Rice. New Zealand Mass setting by Douglas Mews. The American publisher OCP is offering free downloads of new mass music for a limited period. Other American publishers: WLP and GIA James MacMillan's Newman Mass, written for the Pope's visit, will be published by Boosey & Hawkes probably in the spring of 2011. The published version will not contain the repeats added to the Sanctus and Agnus for Bellahouston and Birmingham. For the moment we have retained our computer-generated audio files, which should be listened to for personal revision only, and not copied or distributed. |
Settings from the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh
A special note for composers from our own Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh: we do want to promote your settings of the new Mass, and will be very happy to link to your website or blog. If you don’t have a website or blog, we may be able to upload a single example of your work, together with advice on how you can be contacted by interested people. We regret that editing time and web space constraints prevent us from doing more.
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About this page
The Music for the New Mass page provides links to websites where new Mass settings composed in all styles can be viewed, listened to, and in some cases freely downloaded. There are also links relating to the introduction of the New Mass in different countries.
This is an information page only. We are not advertising, nor making any judgments about style, quality or suitability for parish use. And although we welcome and may publish readers’ reviews and comments, these shouldn’t be taken as reflecting the opinions of Forth in Praise.
We are always interested in readers' views on the new settings and experience in 'road-testing' them. You can email us at massmusic@forthinpraise.co.uk or comment online at the Organist’s blog, where a post has been specially created to take comments for this page. You don’t have to be an organist to comment.
A special note for composers from the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh: we do want to promote your settings of the new Mass, and will be very happy to link to your website or blog. If you don’t have a website or blog, we may be able to upload a single example of your work, together with advice on how you can be contacted by interested people. We regret that editing time and web space constraints prevent us from doing more.