1st Edition

The Origins and Ascendancy of the Concert Mass

By Stephanie Rocke Copyright 2021
232 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The mass is an extraordinary musical form. Whereas other Western art music genres from medieval times have fallen out of favour, the mass has not merely survived but flourished. A variety of historical forces within religious, secular, and musical arenas saw the mass expand well beyond its origins as a cycle of medieval chants, become concertised and ultimately bifurcate. Even as Western... Read more

Introduction

Part I: Origins

Chapter 1 Exploring the Ordinary of the Roman Rite

Chapter 2 Differing Opinions about Music within the Church

Chapter 3 Musical Formulations: From Plainchant to Concert Mass

Chapter 4 Haydn’s Harmoniemesse (1802): An Early Concert Mass

Part II: Becoming

Chapter 5 The Concertisation of the Mass

Chapter 6 Secularisation and Cultural Change: From Court and Church to Choral Societies and Choice

Chapter 7 Nineteenth-century Concert Masses

Part III: Division

Chapter 8 Banished from the Eucharist: Cecilians, Plainsong Restoration, the Motu Propio, and Vatican II

Chapter 9 Daniel Lentz’s Missa Umbrarum (1973)

Part IV: Divided

Chapter 10 Masses for concert halls 1903–1963

Chapter 11 Missa Carminum (Folk Song Mass)

Part V: Ascendance

Chapter 12 Conclusions and Future Directions

Biography

Stephanie Rocke is a Research Associate at the University of Melbourne with an ongoing interest in religious and cultural diversity as it is manifested in musical forms and musical activities across time.