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unusual facts about Missa


Six Ugly

The songs "Byou Shin" and "Children" are re-recordings of tracks from the Missa EP and the "Taiyou no Ao" single respectively.


Adieu mes amours

Although "Adieu mes amours" was originally a secular chanson, it was used in a number of mass settings such as, Missa "Adieu mes amours" which uses both parody and cantus firmus compositional techniques by Francesco de Layolle, and another Missa "Adieu mes amours" by Jacob Obrecht.

Bel Canto Chorus

Hynson complemented well-known choral works such as Haydn's Creation and Brahms' Requiem with new and less-known choral works, such as Penderecki's Agnus Dei and Ariel Ramírez's Missa Criolla.

Cherubikon

In the history of Byzantine music manuscripts the cherubikon appears quite late in liturgical manuscripts with musical notation, not before the late 12th century, while the earliest sources are of Carolingian origin—sacramentaries with a so-called "Missa greca" like a Hadrianum written in Korvey (near Aachen).

Dublin Choral Foundation

Their repertoire includes Allegri’s Miserere, Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli, Stanford’s Three Motets Op 38, Duruflé’s Quatre Motets Op 10 and more recent compositions by John Tavener, Eric Sweeney and Colin Mawby.

Piccolo Lasso perform much of the specialist children’s repertoire including Gabriel Fauré"?title=Benjamin Britten">Britten’s Missa Brevis and Ceremony of Carols and Eric Sweeney’s Missa Brevis.

Eela Craig

The band signed a contract with Virgin Records in 1975, to release a number of singles and albums, including the Christian concept album Missa Universalis, and a signature ethereal style cover version of Chris de Burgh's A Spaceman Came Travelling, both released in 1978.

High Mass

The renowned liturgist Adrian Fortescue declared that the Missa Cantata "is really a low Mass, since the essence of high Mass is not the music but the deacon and subdeacon".

Jheronimus Vinders

The Missa Fors seulement is built on the chansons by Antoine de Févin and Matthaeus Pipelare; the Missa Fit porta Christi pervia is based on a plainchant cantus firmus; the Missa Myns liefkens bruyn ooghen uses as its source a secular song in Dutch, by Benedictus Appenzeller; and the Missa Stabat mater uses the motet by Josquin, a composer he evidently admired.

John van Kesteren

With van Karajan and the same orchestra, Van Kesteren sang at the 25th commemoration in Beethoven's ninth symphony and Missa Solemnis in Hiroshima and sang the Evangelist in the first Russian performance of the St Matthew Passion in Moscow.

La Grande Chapelle

They also perform the Missa pro Defunctis by Mateo Romero, Music for the Corpus of Joan Pau Pujol, and the mass O Gloriosa Virginum by Antonio Rodríguez de Hita.

Ludwig Senfl

2009 - Missa Paschalis, Motetten and Lieder. The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, QuinEssential, Andrew Lawrence-King (Harp), Christopher Watson (Tenor), Robert Macdonald (Bass).

Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo

The "Archive" goals were to publish scores of Brazilian music, which standed out in its first publishing: Missa dos Defuntos (1809) for 4 voices a cappella and Tantum Ergo by Padre José Maurício Nunes Garcia, Canto Religioso and O Salutaris by Francisco Manuel da Silva, and several opera's passages reduced to piano part from Joanna de Flandres by Carlos Gomes.

Missa Latina

Missa Latina is a classical music composition written by the Puerto Rican composer Roberto Sierra.

Missä miehet ratsastaa

"Missä miehet ratsastaa" is also the first single release from the forthcoming album Myrskyntuoja.

"Missä miehet ratsastaa" (Where the men ride) is a song by Teräsbetoni which was the Finnish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008.

Missa Sicca

The Missa Sicca (Latin: "dry Mass") was a common form of devotion used in the medieval Roman Catholic Church for funerals or marriages which were served in the afternoon, when a real Mass (liturgy) could not be said.

Music from Eighteenth-Century Prague

Jan Dismas Zelenka: Missa Nativitatis Domini ZWV 8, Magnificat in C major ZWV 107, O magnum mysterium (Motetto pro Nativitate) ZWV 171, Motet Chvalte Boha silného ZWV 165.

Osip Kozlovsky

Kozlovsky composed a famous Requiem Mass in E flat minor Missa pro defunctis for the death of Stanisław August Poniatowski, the King of Poland (1732–1798), commissioned by the King himself before his death and performed on February 25, 1798 in St Petersburg.

Pierre Cadéac

All that is known about his life is that he was choirmaster in Auch, the historical capital of the region, in 1556, as mentioned on the title page of Du Chemin's publication of his Missa Alma Redemptoris Mater.

Soggetto cavato

In addition to his Hercules Mass, he wrote another soggetto cavato dedicated to Emperor Charles V entitled Missa Carolus Imperator Romanorum Quintus.

Sydney Watson

In 1965 he conducted the first performance of Walton's The Twelve, and in 1967 he directed what was probably the first liturgical performance of Taverner's Missa Corona Spinea for four hundred years.

The Marionettes Chorale

They have premiered several choral works in the Caribbean, including: Carmina Burana (Orff); Fanshawe’s African Sanctus; Ralph Vaughan Williams' Five Mystical Songs, Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols; Francis Poulenc’s Gloria; Duke Ellington's Sacred Concerts and Leonard Bernstein’s Missa Brevis and Chichester Psalms.

Vester Egesborg Church

Candlemass, with the Latin name "Missa candelarum", is an old Catholic custom that has been revived in a number of Danish churches.


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