Messe de Minuit pour Noël (Marc-Antoine Charpentier)

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Kyrie

(Posted 2011-11-22) CPDL #24977:

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-11-22). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 108 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformatting of #18541. Includes TTB solo section for Christe eleison. Revised files uploaded 28/11/17.

(Posted 2008-12-14) CPDL #18541: (YouTube)

Editor: Claude Tallet (submitted 2008-12-14). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 149 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard version of the original accompaniment. As in H. W. Hitchcock's edition, eighth notes are re-notated as dotted eighths & sixteenths, and dynamics are added, and the music is transposed a tone lower.

Gloria

(Posted 2011-11-23) CPDL #24984:

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-11-23). Score information: A4, 7 pages, 127 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformatting of #18542. Contains SS and TTB solo passages.revised files uploaded 28/11/17.

(Posted 2008-12-14) CPDL #18542: (YouTube)

Editor: Claude Tallet (submitted 2008-12-14). Score information: A4, 11 pages, 195 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard version of the original accompaniment. Intonation from Mass VIII.

Credo

(Posted 2011-12-01) CPDL #25074:

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2011-12-01). Score information: A4, 13 pages, 227 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformatting of #18543. Contains TTB, SSA & ATB solo sections.

(Posted 2008-12-14) CPDL #18543: (YouTube)

Editor: Claude Tallet (submitted 2008-12-14). Score information: A4, 17 pages, 375 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard version of the original accompaniment. it may be found desirable to sing the intonation a third higher.

Sanctus & Benedictus

(Posted 2010-01-20) CPDL #20871:

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2010-01-20). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 87 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Keyboard accompaniment included. Revised files uploaded 28/11/17.

(Posted 2008-12-14) CPDL #18544: (YouTube)

Editor: Claude Tallet (submitted 2008-12-14). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 85 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard version of the original accompaniment.

Agnus Dei

(Posted 2010-01-20) CPDL #20872:

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2010-01-20). Score information: A4, 1 page, 50 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Keyboard accompaniment included. Revised files uploaded 28/11/17.

(Posted 2008-12-14) CPDL #18545:

Editor: Claude Tallet (submitted 2008-12-14). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 33 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard version of the original accompaniment.

General Information

Title: Messe de Minuit pour Noël
Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
, with sections for Choral ATB soli Genre: Sacred, Mass for the First Mass of Christmas

Language: Latin
Instruments: Orchestra: 2 recorders, 4-part strings & bc

First published:
Description: Numerous French carols are quoted: Joseph est bien marié (Kyrie); Or nous dites. Marie (Christe); Une jeune pucelle (last Kyrie); Les bourgeois de Châtre & Ou s'en vont ces gais bergers (Gloria); Vous qui désirez sans fin, Voici le jour solennel de Noël, & A la venue de Noël (Credo); O Dieu, que n'étois-je en vie (Sanctus); & A minuit fut fait un réveil (Agnus). Charpentier calls for additional instrumental interludes: the organ should play a verse after the first Kyrie, and the strings an offertory on Laissez paître vos bêtes. This last setting is preserved in a different section of Charpentier's notebooks.

External websites:

Free choir training aids for this work are available at Choralia.
Messe de Minuit pour Noël (Marc-Antoine Charpentier) at the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)

Original text and translations

For information, refer to the Mass page. For texts and translations, see the individual pages:

Kyrie • Gloria • Credo • Sanctus & Benedictus • Agnus Dei