Sanctus from "Midnight Mass for Christmas"

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Tenor 1, Tenor 2, Bass, Piano — Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Messe de Minuit pour Noël is a charming work and one of histwelve settings of the Mass Ordinary. This Mass is unique, though, in that he uses a FrenchChristmas carols as the melodic framework for each movement. Common Baroque performance technique should be employed specifically a light, lifted tone,legato phrasing, and a sense of metrical and syllabic stress. Additionally, Charpentier utilizes acommon French Baroque rhythmic convention called notes inegalés, meaning, when eveneighth notes are written, choirs should feel free to treat them as a dotted-eighth sixteenthfigure to attain a performance closest to French Baroque style.In this edition, an optional accompaniment has been included for accessibility and flexibility inperformance. Choirs performing a cappella should begin at m. 4. Drawn from the Messe de Minuit pour Noël by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, this accessible setting, Sanctus reflects the charm and clarity of French Baroque style. One of Charpentier’s twelve settings of the Mass Ordinary, the Midnight Mass for Christmas is distinctive for its use of traditional French Christmas carols as melodic foundations. This movement calls for a light, lifted tone, smooth legato phrasing, and clear attention to metrical and syllabic stress. An optional accompaniment is included, with the flexibility to perform a cappella for additional programming options.

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