Mass of Santa Cecilia – Wikipedia

The Mass of Santa Cecilia It is a mass by Alessandro Scarlatti, written in 1720 for five solo voices (two soprano, counterattack, tenor and bass), choir and orchestra, commissioned and dedicated to Cardinal Francesco Acquaviva d’Aragona.

Scarlatti was then sixty years old and composed it at the beginning of the eighteenth century, in a modern style of the time, characterized by panache and seduction, ^[first] Which culminated in the great masses of Bach and Beethoven and “seems to predict the last Masses of Haydn”. ^[2] This remarkable work, “crowning all its sacred music”, ^[3] almost contemporary of the Magnificat of Bach (1723), has nothing to envy them, “both in terms of musical interest and stylistic synthesis of the early eighteenth century trends”. ^{[4] [5]}

The execution time of the 923 jokes ^[first] It is about 52 minutes. The Gloria it is the most developed, overcoming the 23 minutes and the I believe , following, reaches 14 minutes.

Lived on the ropes Scarlatti’s writing from Kyrie , close to Vivaldi; The interventions of the choir alternate or overlap with the singing decorated by the soloists. ^[3] The composer concludes the Gloria, with its complex structure, with an imposing five -part escape on With the Holy Spirit , whose subject is provided by the Gregorian intonation of the Mass in Santa Cecilia, Dilecisti . ^[3] The I believe , who looks more in his style to the future, he is close to the writing of his own Stabat Mater , but even more to that of Pergolesi seventeen years later. The joyful precipitation of the He’s resurenxit that “intensifies to the turmoil”, contrasts with the sudden stop on the dead in a suggestive effect. ^[3] The movement ends with an escape that resumes the theme of Gloria with a completely different development. In the’ Agnus dei , Scarlatti melts the old man (voice) and the new (arches), until it reverses them.

In addition to the Mass, always in 1720, Scarlatti composed the Vespers (40 min.), Find out more recently, being both the scores destined for the church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere. In 1708 he had composed The martyrdom of Santa Cecilia , inspired by the same patron saint of musicians.

• Mass of Santa Cecilia (1720) for SSATB Sola and Choir, Archi orchestra and continuous organ , ed. John Steel, Novello 1968OCLC  679576508 – From the Roman manuscript.

• Blanche Christensen, Jean Preston, soprano; Beryl-Jensen Smiley, contralto; Ronald Christensen, tenor; Warren Wood, bass; The Alumnenchor of the University of Utah and the Utah Symphony, directed by Maurice Abravanel (1961, LP Amadeo Avrs5001 / Amadeus / Vanguard Records / “Alessandro Scarlatti Collection”, vol. 5, Brilliant Classics) OCLC 772703252 It is 657400201 ,OCLC  1031705213 It is 47016549 ^[6]
• Elizabeth Harwood, Wendy Eathorne, soprano; Margaret Cable, contralto; Wynford Evans, tenor; Christopher Keyte, bass; John Scott, organ; Cambridge choir of St John’s College; The Wren Orchestra, dir. George Guest (3-4 August 1978, LP Argo Zrg 903 / Decca Records “Seranata” 430 631-2 / “Double” 458 370-2) OCLC 77414310 It is 1019824531

• ( IN ) Edwin Hanley, Alessandro Scarlatti: Mass of Santa Cecilia , in The Musical Quarterly , vol. 48, n. 4, October 1962, pp. 548–550, doi: 10.1093/mq/XLVIII.4.548 , ISSN 0027-4631 ( WC · Acnp ) , OCLC  5556199953 . .
• ( FR ) Carl The NYS a Marc Honey, Mass and vespers for the feast of Sainte-Cécile, Alessandro Scarlatti , in Dictionary of works of vocal music , II (G-O), Paris, Éditions Bordas, 1992, p. 1291–1292, ISBN 2040153950, OCLC 25239400 . .
• ( FR ) Alessandro Scarlatti, My respectful, my deep silence speaks for me ; Correspondanceà Alexander Regretti and De Feddiand de Medicis , Toulouse, Shadow, 1995, p. 115, ISBN 2-84142-016-7, OCLC 1033722311 .
• ( FR ) Edmond Lemaître (dir.), Guide to sacred and choir music, Baroque age 1600–1750 , Paris, Fayard, 1992, p. 668–669, ISBN 2-213-02606-8, OCLC 708322577 .