Ryba: Missa pastoralis in C Major
in Nativitate Domini in nocte
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- Composer: Jakub Jan Ryba (1765-1815)
- Instrumentation (this edition): Piano Reduction, SATB Choir
- Originally for: SATB Choir, Orchestra
- Work: Missa pastoralis in C Major (in Nativitate Domini in nocte)
- Work Language: Latin
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- Size: 7.5 x 10.6 inches
- Pages: 24
Description
The Missa pastoralis in C, published here for the first time, dates from about 1808. It belongs to a cycle of sacred pieces, a Cursus sacro-harmonicus, which Ryba planned as Ordinarium and Proprium settings for all the Sundays and feast days of the church year. The Missa pastoralis in C is a pastoral Mass for the matutinal service at Christmas. As in the Missa Pastoralis in B-flat, in this Mass Ryba makes use of concertante instruments: trumpet and a bassoon, an instrument seldom employed solistically in a Mass, but which gives this work a unique character.