Missa Gaudeamus

composer

based on Morales' Iubilate Deo omnis terra, itself based on the chant Gaudeamus omnes; published in 1585 by Dominico Basa, Rome

editor

Jon Dixon (b?)

edition prepared by JOED Music

author of text

Anonymous

Ordinary of the Mass

Recordings

Victoria: Missa Gaudeamus & other works

Westminster Cathedral Lay Clerks, Matthew Martin (conductor)

Buy by post £13.99 CDA67748

Details

Movement 1: Kyrie

Westminster Cathedral Lay Clerks, Matthew Martin (conductor)

Track 3 on CDA67748 [4'26]

GreekEnglish

Movement 2: Gloria

Westminster Cathedral Lay Clerks, Matthew Martin (conductor)

Track 4 on CDA67748 [7'50]

LatinEnglish

Movement 3: Credo

Westminster Cathedral Lay Clerks, Matthew Martin (conductor)

Track 11 on CDA67748 [11'23]

LatinEnglish

Movement 4: Sanctus

Westminster Cathedral Lay Clerks, Matthew Martin (conductor)

Track 16 on CDA67748 [3'15]

LatinEnglish

Movement 5: Benedictus

Westminster Cathedral Lay Clerks, Matthew Martin (conductor)

Track 17 on CDA67748 [2'43]

LatinEnglish

Movement 6: Agnus Dei

Westminster Cathedral Lay Clerks, Matthew Martin (conductor)

Track 19 on CDA67748 [5'13]

LatinEnglish

Missa Gaudeamus

EnglishFrançaisDeutsch

Victoria’s Missa Gaudeamus is based on a motet, Iubilate Deo omnis terra, by Morales which was written in 1538 to celebrate the cessation of hostilities between Francis I and Charles V as a result of mediation by the Pope, Paul III, who persuaded them to meet and sign a treaty at Nice. In the motet and the Mass both composers make much use of the opening phrase of the introit Gaudeamus omnes—‘Let us all rejoice’—as a cantus firmus, upon which to build their music. Gaudeamus omnes is a Mass Proper. Mass Propers are older forms of the Mass liturgy which vary according to the date and/or season of the liturgical calendar, and which can be interpolated between movements of the Mass Ordinary, the unvarying movements of the Mass as they were established in a later era.

Track-specific metadata

Click track numbers opposite to select

Hyperion Records