Messe de Minuit pour Noël (Marc-Antoine Charpentier)
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Kyrie
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-11-22). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 91 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Reformatting of #18541. Includes TTB solo section for Christe eleison.
- Editor: Claude Tallet (submitted 2008-12-14). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 149 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard version of the original accompaniment. As in H. W. Hitchcock's edition, eighth notes are re-notated as dotted eighths & sixteenths, and dynamics are added, and the music is transposed a tone lower. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
Gloria
- CPDL #24984: Gloria_minuit.pdf Gloria_minuit.mid Gloria_minuit.cap
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-11-23). Score information: A4, 7 pages, 116 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Reformatting of #18542. Contains SS and TTB solo passages.
- Editor: Claude Tallet (submitted 2008-12-14). Score information: A4, 11 pages, 195 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard version of the original accompaniment. Intonation from Mass VIII. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
Credo
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-12-01). Score information: A4, 13 pages, 227 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Reformatting of #18543. Contains TTB, SSA & ATB solo sections.
- Editor: Claude Tallet (submitted 2008-12-14). Score information: A4, 17 pages, 375 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard version of the original accompaniment. it may be found desirable to sing the intonation a third higher. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
Sanctus & Benedictus
- CPDL #20871: Sanctus_&_Benedictus_Charpentier.pdf Sanctus_&_Benedictus_Charpentier.mid Sanctus_&_Benedictus_Charpentier.cap
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2010-01-20). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 56 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Keyboard accompaniment included
- Editor: Claude Tallet (submitted 2008-12-14). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 85 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard version of the original accompaniment. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
Agnus Dei
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2010-01-20). Score information: A4, 1 page, 63 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Keyboard accompaniment included
- Editor: Claude Tallet (submitted 2008-12-14). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 33 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard version of the original accompaniment. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
General Information
Title: Messe de Minuit pour Noël
Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
, with sections for Choral ATB soli & Choral SS soli
Genre: Sacred, Mass for the First Mass of Christmas
Language: Latin
Instruments: Orchestra: 2 recorders, 4-part strings & bc
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Description: Numerous French carols are quoted: Joseph est bien marié (Kyrie); Or nous dites. Marie (Christe); Une jeune pucelle (last Kyrie); Les bourgeois de Châtre & Ou s'en vont ces gais bergers (Gloria); Vous qui désirez sans fin, Voici le jour solennel de Noël, & A la venue de Noël (Credo); O Dieu, que n'étois-je en vie (Sanctus); & A minuit fut fait un réveil (Agnus). Charpentier calls for additional instrumental interludes: the organ should play a verse after the first Kyrie, and the strings an offertory on Laissez paître vos bêtes. This last setting is preserved in a different section of Charpentier's notebooks.
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Original text and translations
For information, refer to the Mass page. For texts and translations, see the individual pages: