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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis: (Cambridge Music Handbooks Series) » (New Edition)

Authors: William Drabkin, Julian Rushton
ISBN-13: 9780521378314, ISBN-10: 0521378311
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: November 1991
Edition: New Edition

William Drabkin considers Beethoven's Missa Solemnis as a musical expression of the most celebrated text of the Roman Catholic faith - the mass.

	List of tables
	Preface
1	Critical perspectives	1
	The Missa solemnis as religious experience	1
	The Missa solemnis and music history	3
	The Missa solemnis in the history of sacred music	4
	Analytical studies	6
	Source studies	8
2	Composition, performance and publication history	11
	Background	11
	The composition of the Mass	14
	The marketing of the Mass: publication, performance	17
3	Preliminaries to the analysis	19
	Beethoven and the Austrian mass tradition	20
	Analytical method	21
	Textual problems	23
	The Mass in D as a "missa solemnis"	26
4	Kyrie	28
	The first "Kyrie" (bars 1-85)	29
	"Christe" (bars 86-128)	33
	The second "Kyrie" (bars 129-223)	33
5	Gloria	37
	Gloria in excelsis Deo	41
	Qui tollis	46
	Quoniam	48
	The closing fugue	49
6	Credo	52
	The first section (bars 1-123)	55
	The central section (bars 125-87)	57
	The third section and closing fugue (bars 188-472)	61
7	Sanctus	66
	Early sketches for the movement	66
	Sanctus--Pleni--Osanna	73
	Praeludium and Benedictus	76
	The second "Osanna"	80
8	Agnus Dei	83
	The "Agnus"	85
	The beginning of the "Dona"	87
	The "War" interruptions and their consequences	92
	The Coda	94
9	Concluding thoughts	96
	Connections between the movements	96
	Orchestration	101
	The Missa solemnis as programmatic music	106
	Notes	109
	Bibliography	113
	Index	117