Missa Votiva
The Missa Votiva is a mass composed by the Czech Baroque composer Jan Dismas Zelenka in 1739, Dresden. The Missa Votiva is about seventy minutes long, and its twenty parts range from forty-five seconds to over seven minutes in length.[1][2]
Most of the composition is very festive and played with vivacity, the last movement being set to the tune of the first and many of the other arias being in a major key. Zelenka scored this work for a standard Baroque orchestra of strings, woodwinds and brass instruments, with the choral parts sung by a choir featuring several soloists who sing their own arias besides the parts for the whole choir. Even though a mass, the work is regarded as a highly complex musical composition, featuring "polyphonic formality" as well as operatic expression.[3]
Structure[edit]
- Kyrie
- Christe eleison
- Kyrie 2
- Kyrie 3
- Gloria
- Gratias agimus tibi
- Qui tollis
- Qui sedes
- Quoniam to solus sanctus
- Cum Sancto Spiritu 1
- Cum Sancto Spiritu 2
- Credo
- Et incarnatus est
- Crucifixus
- Et resurrexit
- Sanctus
- Benedictus
- Osanna in excelsis
- Agnus Dei
- Dona nobis pacem
References[edit]
- ^ Manheim, James. "Collegium 1704 / Collegium Vocale 1704 / Václav Luks Zelenka: Missa Votiva ZWV 18". All Music. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
- ^ Vernier, David. "Zelenka: Missa votiva/Bernius". Classics Today. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
- ^ Manheim, James. "Frieder Bernius / Kammerchor Stuttgart / Stuttgart Baroque Orchestra Jan Dismas Zelenka: Missa votiva ZWV 18". All Music. Retrieved 23 August 2013.