The ''Missa Votiva'' is a mass composed by the Czech
Baroque
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composer
Jan Dismas Zelenka in 1739, Dresden. The ''Missa Votiva'' is about seventy minutes long, and its twenty parts range from forty-five seconds to over seven minutes in length.
Most of the composition is very festive and played with vivacity, the last movement being set to the tune of the first and many of the other arias being in a major key. Zelenka scored this work for a standard Baroque orchestra of strings, woodwinds and brass instruments, with the choral parts sung by a choir featuring several soloists who sing their own arias besides the parts for the whole choir. Even though a mass, the work is regarded as a highly complex musical composition, featuring "
polyphonic formality" as well as operatic expression.
Structure
#Kyrie
#Christe eleison
#Kyrie 2
#Kyrie 3
#Gloria
#Gratias agimus tibi
#Qui tollis
#Qui sedes
#Quoniam to solus sanctus
#Cum Sancto Spiritu 1
#Cum Sancto Spiritu 2
#Credo
#Et incarnatus est
#Crucifixus
#Et resurrexit
#Sanctus
#Benedictus
#Osanna in excelsis
#Agnus Dei
#Dona nobis pacem
References
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1739 compositions
Masses by Jan Dismas Zelenka