Mass in mode 2 (anonymous)

Mass in mode 2 is a mass proper for Easter Sunday, the most significant feast day in the Christian church calendar.

Structure

Gradual:

The text is drawn from Psalms 118:1/24, Old Testament. It employs responsorial singing, which the soloist alternates with the choir, and long melismas.

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!Latin |- | |style="padding-left:2em;"|This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth forever. |}

Further reading

  • Atkinson, Charles. M. 2008. The Critical Nexus: Tone-System, Mode, and Notation in Early Medieval Music. AMS Studies in Music. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-988204-5.
  • Bower, Calvin. M. 2002. "The Transmission of Ancient Music Theory into the Missle Ages". In The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory,e dited by Thomas Christensen, . The Cambridge History of Music. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-31602548-2.
  • Crocker, Richard L. 2000. An Introduction to Gregorian Chant. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08310-1.
  • Cullin, Olivier. 1991. "De la psalmodie sans refrain à la psalmodie responsoriale: Transformation et conservation dans les répertoires liturgiques latins". Revue de musicologie 77, no. 1 (January): 5–24.
  • Kojima, Shin (Augustinus). 1967. "Die Ostergradualien Haec dies und ihr Verhältnis zu den Tractus des II. Und VIII. Tons". In Colloquium amicorum: Joseph Schmidt-Görg zum 70. Geburtstag, edited by Siegfried Kross and Hans Schmidt, 146–78. Bonn: Beethoven-Haus.
  • McAlpine, Fiona. 2008. Tonal Consciousness and the Medieval West. Bern: Peter Lang, AG. ISBN 978-3-03911-506-8.
  • Romano, John F. 2014. Liturgy and Society in Early Medieval Rome. Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4094-4393-3.
  • Rothenberg, David J. 2011. The Flower of Paradise: Marian Devotion and Secular Song in Medieval and Renaissance Music. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-987557-3.
  • Schaefer, Edward E. 2008. Catholic Music Through the Ages: Balancing the Needs of a Worshipping Church. Hillenbrand Books Textbook Series. Chicago: Hillenbrand Books. ISBN 978-1-59525-020-9.
  • Taruskin, Richard. 2005. Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century. The Oxford History of Westrn Music 1. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-538630-1.