Ennis Fruhauf
A Brief Mass Setting
for Voice and Organ
Rite II
(Organ Score – 7 pages,  Unison Voice Parts – 3 pages)

   I.      Gloria -- "Glory to God in the highest"
  II.     Kyrie  --  "Lord, have mercy"
 III.    Alleluia
 IV.    Memorial Acclamation  -- "Christ has died"
  V.     Amen
VI.     Sanctus -- "Holy, holy, holy Lord"
VII.   Agnus Dei  -- "Lamb of God"

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Click on the links below to download a PDF booklet and insert
available 12/2024

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Notes

            A Brief Mass Setting for Voices and Organ provides a sonorous accompanied setting of the Eucharist. The choir/cantor/congregational unison parts are melodious and unified by recurring thematic materials. In all  movements  unison voice lines are doubled by the organ accompaniment for strong vocal support. This revised setting offers an eloquent enhancement to celebrations of  [Rite II]  Eucharists.

            The Gloria appears in a thematic ABA' format, with an added Amen. The  Kyrie (“Lord, have mercy”) and Alleluia share one musical setting, a responsorial chant between cantor — or choir — and congregation. Likewise, the Memorial Acclamation (“Christ has died...”) and Amen both share responsorial settings. The Sanctus (“Holy, holy”) borrows freely from thematic materials presented in the “Lamb of God” text (derived from the mid-section of the Gloria). Those motifs return once more in the Agnus  Dei (i.e. “Lamb of God”) setting.

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