James MacMillan: St Anne's Mass: Unison Voices: Vocal Score

Tryst, for chamber orchestra, was composed in 1989 and has since established itself both in the concert hall and as a ballet score. The composer explains the genesis of the work in the form of a love poem by William Soutar written in broad Scots, called The Tryst, which he set to a very simple melody. This melody has persistently appeared, in various guises, in many works composed since - the congregational St Anne's Mass, a tiny fragment for violin and piano (After the Tryst), in the music theatre piece Búsqueda, and in the choral Miserere. Not only did it crop up again in Tryst, but it has provided both the title and the emotional core of the music. 'Its melodic characteristics, matching the original words, seem to imply many very strong associations - commitment, sanctity, intimacy, faith, love, but it is also saturated with a sadness as if all these things are about to expire.?Suitable for advanced standard performers. / Conducteur De Poche

New edition 2011-Separate part - cantor and congregation part - Cantor Congregation (Unison or SAATB) and Organ.MacMillan's popular congregational mass setting updated with the text of the new English translation released in 2010. A major addition is the inclusion of a newly composed setting of the Gloria. Suitable for congregational use with or without choir. All ability levels.The setting contains the following movements:KyrieGloriaSanctusAcclamations 1 2 & 3Great AmenAgnus Dei

Non-liturgical setting of the Kyrie Sanctus and Agnus Dei from the Latin Mass scored for 4-part children?s choir and full orchestra. The composer states that ?each movement is reasonably substantial with much space for the orchestral music to grow and develop [?] a lot of the vocal writing was imagined as an extension and enhancement of the orchestral palette where the young voices are ?smudged? into the orchestral sound in an impressionistic manner.?Little Mass (2014) was commissioned by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society for its 175th Anniversary the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Supported by Sally Mary andJonathan Groves to mark the centenary of Sir Charles Groves in the month he would have celebrated his 100th birthday.Suitable for intermediate standard voices and advanced standard orchestra.