Talk:Mass (music)

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I cheerfully concede this is more elaborate than most stubs, but it is indeed a stub that needs work. Feel free to add to it. Perhaps a list of notable composers of Masses, similar to the list I put at requiem, might be appropriate. ---User:Ihcoyc

I think the section Form of the Mass should be moved to Ordinary of the Mass. I think that's a more appropriate place for the full text to appear. Also, I think Sanctus and Benedictus are usually considered to be one part, not two. Alcuin 03:14, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Is Rutter's Mass of the Children in the right place? It is in fact a missa brevis, as it has no credo section. ---User:Hesperus

Oh yes Hesperus you are correct..I agree with you 100%, that was such a delightful comment

Yes i'll second that agreement, no credo section is positively shocking, thank you for bringing that important comment to our attention Hesperus. No longer will I look at missa brevis's in the same light again.

I question the parenthesis of the filioque and thus am putting it fully into the text -- since Mass is a Western term, there is no reason to include the Eastern Orthodox caveat on the filioque.

[edit] Baroque to the present?

This is a huge period. Should we not split it up into subsections? Maybe Viennese Masses (Haydn & Co); Romantic/Operatic Masses (Gounod, Rheinberger et al.); 20th C Masses. Should a distiction be made between 'liturgical' masses and 'concert' masses? (Bach's Mass in B minor could never be used as part of the liturgy, for example)

Fiddleback 20:25, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes: it should be subdivided and expanded greatly, in my opinion. (I added a bunch to the pre-Baroque, but haven't edited the rest.) Thanks! Antandrus (talk) 20:45, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

A lot of this is already in the Ordinary of the Mass article; I think it belongs here.Sparafucil 05:53, 8 June 2007 (UTC)