Lord Nelson Mass – Haydn
Here is another Listening Journal entry for my Conducting Style and Analysis class! This was another piece I was previously unaware of, and now after listening to it and reading about it’s background, I absolutely love the music and the way it was written. Haydn wrote this during a time of war, giving the standard Mass text a “prayerful sense of urgency” (AmericanBach.org). The piece is primarily written in d minor, giving the mass an overall feeling of darkness. The last movement, however, concludes in D Major, with the text “dona nobis pacem” or “grant us...
Read MoreMissa Solemnis – Beethoven
As part of my Conducting Style and Analysis class this semester, we are required to keep a listening journal for a required listening list of about 35 choral pieces. I thought these would be perfect to share as Noteworthy Pieces, as well as give me another medium in which I can develop my writing about music. The piece on the list is Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis.” I found a great recording of Leonard Bernstein conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra performance of this piece. I love the dynamics in this piece, because I feel they are both appropriate and unexpected at the...
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