Janácek: Glagolitic Mass
- Author: Wingfield, Paul
Wingfield offers pragmatic musical and textual solutions to changes and omissions in the score that have surfaced over time. Conductors should not embark on a performance of this masterwork...
Janácek: Glagolitic Mass
- Author: Wingfield, Paul
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Wingfield offers pragmatic musical and textual solutions to changes and omissions in the score that have surfaced over time. Conductors should not embark on a performance of this masterwork...
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The Glagolitic Mass, written between 1926 and 1927, is not only one of Janácek's most important works: it is also a masterpiece of the twentieth-century choral repertoire. In this fascinating account of the work and its history, Paul Wingfield brings together material from early articles and reviews, letters and manuscripts which form a comprehensive account of the work's genesis and performance history. The author also provides a thorough revision of the Old Church Slavonic text along with English translation, and reconstructs Janácek's 'ideal' version of the work - far more exciting than the less adventurous rearrangement currently performed. Chapters on the music itself offer a full synopsis of the Glagolitic Mass, an in-depth discussion of its musical organisation and a selection of key interpretations of the piece by Janácek and others.
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on musical examples, bar numbers, abbreviations and translations
- Introduction
- 1. Genesis and reception
- 2. The (Old?) Church Slavonic text
- 3. The authentic score
- 4. Synopsis
- 5. Introduction to the musical organisation
- 6. Literature 1927-30
- Notes
- Principal sources of the Glagolitic Mass
- Bibliography
- Index.
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Choral Journal
Wingfield offers pragmatic musical and textual solutions to changes and omissions in the score that have surfaced over time. Conductors should not embark on a performance of this masterwork without consulting this valuable handbook
