Music Notes Part I for Pentecost 11 — August 4, 2024

Missa brevis for three voices – Stephanie Martin (b. 1962)

Canadian composer and conductor Stephanie Martin is associate professor of music at York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance, and Design, where she teaches music history, composition, harpsichord and organ, and coaches historical ensembles. She directs Schola Magdalena, a women’s ensemble for chant, medieval and modern music. She is conductor emeritus of Pax Christi Chorale, and past director of music at the Church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Toronto.

This Sunday’s setting of the Ordinary of the Mass in church, Stephanie Martin’s Missa brevis for three voices, shows that beautiful music can come from three-part writing – no mean feat. The intuitive voice leading and plaintive, evocative harmonies in this setting make for a brief work that is simple and very effective.

Gerald Harder

 

Kyrie

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Lord have mercy.
Christ have mercy.
Lord have mercy.

Sanctus/Benedictus

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Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts,
heaven and earth are full of thy glory.
Glory be to thee, O Lord most high.
Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:
Hosanna in the highest.

Agnus Dei

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O Lamb of God, that takest away the sin of the world: have mercy upon us.
O Lamb of God, that takest away the sin of the world: have mercy upon us.
O Lamb of God, that takest away the sin of the world: grant us thy peace.