Mass for Mixed Chorus and Double Wind Quintet

Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky

General Info

Year: 1948
Duration: c. 20:00
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Cost: Score and Parts - Rental  |   Score Only - $37.67

Movements

1. Kyrie - 2:37
2. Gloria - 3:56
3. Credo - 4:25
4. Sanctus - 3:17
5. Agnus Dei - 2:55

Instrumentation

Full Score
Oboe I-II
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Trombone I-II-III

Mixed Chorus

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Stravinsky's Mass acts as an antithesis to the heavily decorative style of Mozart; this work uses sparse instrumental resources and a four-part choir. Stravinsky's characteristic compositional techniques are evident, including frequently changing time signatures and an emphasis on rhythmic, rather than melodic, motives. This work is best performed in a church or cathedral by a seasoned ensemble with a solid understanding of appropriate performance practices associated with masses.

- Program Note from Great Music for Wind Band

Among Stravinsky's religious choral works, the Mass sits in between the more robust Symphony of Psalms and the later, more esoteric serial compositions. He had come across some Mozart masses in a second-hand bookstore in Los Angeles; "as I played through these rococo-operatic sweets-of-sin, I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one." That is, he intended to compose a Roman Catholic mass for actual church use. Stravinsky also wrote: "Religious music without religion is almost always vulgar."

- Program Note by Joseph Horovitz for Boosey & Hawkes

Media

• Audio CD: Philharmonia Orchestra (Robert Craft, conductor) - 2006

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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• University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) Wind Ensemble (Stephen Caldwell, conductor; Schola Cantorum) – 25 April 2017
• Boston (Mass.) Conservatory Wind Ensemble (George Case, conductor) – 24 February 2017
• San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra and San Francisco State University Chamber Singers -14 April 2013.

Works for Winds by This Composer

• Berceuse and Finale from "The Firebird" (arr. Longfield) (1910/1998)
• Berceuse and Finale from "The Firebird" (arr. Goldman) (1910/1941)
• Berceuse and Finale from "The Firebird" (arr. McAlister and Reed) (1910/1989)
• Circus Polka (orch. Raksin) (1942/1948)
• Concertino for 12 Instruments (1920/1952)
• Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments (1950)
• Ebony Concerto (1946)
• Elegy for JFK (1964)
• Excerpts from "The Rite of Spring" (arr. Buckley) (1913/2015)
• Fanfare for a New Theater (1968)
• Finale from "The Firebird" (arr. Story) (1910/2014)
• The Firebird: Finale (arr. Hanna) (1910/2023)
• The Firebird (trans. Patterson) (1910)
• Firebird Excerpts (arr. Bocook) (1910/1995)
• The Firebird Suite (tr. Earles, ed. Fennell) (1910/1998)
• Fireworks, Op 4 (trans. Rogers) (1908)
• Funeral Song (1908)
• L'Histoire du Soldat (1918)
• Mass for Mixed Chorus and Double Wind Quintet (1948)
• Octuor (1923)
• Pastorale (1907/1933)
• The Rite of Spring (tr. Patterson) (1913/1947)
• The Rite of Spring (arr. Sánchez) (1913)
• The Rite of Spring (arr. Vosbein) (1913/2011)
• Scherzo à la russe (arr. Marciniak) (1944/1977)
• Song of the Volga Boatmen (ed. Simpson) (1917/1989)
• Suite from "The Firebird" (trans. Nefs) (1919/2013)
• Suite from "The Firebird" (trans. Knox) (1919)
• Suite No 2 for Wind Ensemble or Small Concert Band (tr. McAlister and Binney) (1921/1988)
• Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920, rev. 1947)
• Symphony of Psalms (1930/1948)

Resources

None discovered thus far.