Lord Nelson Mass for Instruments (2024): 10. Agnus Dei
Every year, members of the community combine with the students of my alma mater, MSSU (Missouri Southern State University) to form the Southern Symphonic Chorus, and alongside the Southern Symphony Orchestra, we perform beautiful orchestral works from Beethoven's 9th to Orff's Carmina Burana, and everything in between or of a similar nature. Performing these masterworks is a lot of fun, and does a great service to my hometown of Joplin, MO.
In 2020, the intended masterwork was Haydn's "Missa in angustiis" (Mass for troubled times), more famously called the Lord Nelson Mass. Unfortunately, that was cancelled because COVID-19 decided to put the globe under house arrest. Now that we are out of the pandemic, we finally got around to performing it. To represent this, I chose to update the rehearsal tracks that helped me practice for the big night, although this new version doesn't show the lyrics on the score. The instruments are, however, playing the solo and tutti parts the vocals would do as they did before.
I used the updated MuseScore 4.2.1 for this score as well.
The new lineup is:
Soprano saxophone (representing soprano parts)
Alto saxophone (representing alto parts)
Tenor saxophone (representing tenor parts)
Baritone saxophone (representing bass and baritone parts)
Glockenspiel (doubling tenor sax, but two octaves higher)
Vibraphone (doubling baritone sax, but one octave higher)
Piano (accompaniment)
Original music is public domain
This rehearsal track © me and me alone
SPECIAL NOTES: Originally I didn't have Part 10, because the chorus doesn't perform this movement; only the soloists do. As a result, instead of the piano accompaniment I previously had, I borrowed some parts from the string section to make the piano parts. This was just a rehearsal track to help me practice, however; it wasn't meant to be 100% accurate. Thankfully, the performance itself went like clockwork, and everybody was very pleased.
In 2020, the intended masterwork was Haydn's "Missa in angustiis" (Mass for troubled times), more famously called the Lord Nelson Mass. Unfortunately, that was cancelled because COVID-19 decided to put the globe under house arrest. Now that we are out of the pandemic, we finally got around to performing it. To represent this, I chose to update the rehearsal tracks that helped me practice for the big night, although this new version doesn't show the lyrics on the score. The instruments are, however, playing the solo and tutti parts the vocals would do as they did before.
I used the updated MuseScore 4.2.1 for this score as well.
The new lineup is:
Soprano saxophone (representing soprano parts)
Alto saxophone (representing alto parts)
Tenor saxophone (representing tenor parts)
Baritone saxophone (representing bass and baritone parts)
Glockenspiel (doubling tenor sax, but two octaves higher)
Vibraphone (doubling baritone sax, but one octave higher)
Piano (accompaniment)
Original music is public domain
This rehearsal track © me and me alone
SPECIAL NOTES: Originally I didn't have Part 10, because the chorus doesn't perform this movement; only the soloists do. As a result, instead of the piano accompaniment I previously had, I borrowed some parts from the string section to make the piano parts. This was just a rehearsal track to help me practice, however; it wasn't meant to be 100% accurate. Thankfully, the performance itself went like clockwork, and everybody was very pleased.
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