Edinburgh Mass JACKSON, Gabriel Vocal score (NH39) Price: £5.15 ISBN-10: 0-19-335619-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-335619-1 SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied Duration: 13' Level: moderately difficult Publication date: 31 August 2006 Series: New Horizons Search for titles in the same series	Ordering
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New Horizons showcases the wealth of exciting, innovative, and occasionally challenging choral music being written today. It encompasses the whole gamut of small-scale choral genres, both secular and sacred, and includes pieces for upper-voice and mixed choirs. With titles by some of the most accomplished choral composers active in Great Britain and abroad, the series introduces new repertoire and fresh talent to a broad spectrum of choirs.
New Horizons features composers with growing reputations for quality composition reflecting a strong individual voice. The series is continually expanding and should be the first place to look for attractive and performable contemporary choral music.

for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
This major work by one of Britain's leading choral composers was commissioned by St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. The setting is terse and direct, in the manner of the Poulenc Mass, and the textures often unusually pared-down. By turns fiery and exuberant, and inward and numinous, the music includes a huge variety of textures and techniques, including flowing melismas, luminous key changes, and pure homophony. This is a work of great power that will appeal to committed concert and church choirs.

Contents

	Kyrie
	Gloria
	Sanctus & Benedictus
	Agnus Dei

Reviews

• 'This (unaccompanied) mass is one of his most striking compositions to date . . . all is integrated into a personal and increasingly purposeful idiom, typically contemplative but characteristically warm, radiant, even ecstatic. Edinburgh Mass is a dramatic and virtuoso piece, not least to perform, written in a language which most choirs and (one hopes) their audiences will find rewarding and effective, whether in a concert or in the liturgy.' -Matthew Greenall, The Singer, August 07
• Gabriel Jackson's Edinburgh Mass employs a collage of inflected plainsong over drones, Duruflé-inspired expressive close harmony, sprung 3/4, 3/8 and 2/4 rhythms, and even Goreckian eight-part choral sonorities. Generally the contrasts work effectively to blend the contemporary and archaic, and the piece will be a rewarding sing for a competent and confident choir . . . However, where there is complexity, it is not there for its own sake but in order to heighten the intensity and impact of the moment. Thoroughly recommended. Tom Wiggall, Music Teacher July 07
• 'The Edinburgh Mass is a much more extrovert piece, unusually so in Jackson's choral output. There is a huge variety of textures . . . the virtuoso passage for trebles at Quoniam tu solus sanctus in the Gloria is particularly fun... There is a lightness of touch even when the mood is at its most forthright... This is not easy music to perform, but Jackson't varied and intelligent response to the text will reward the work of a committed choir. Recommended.' -Huw Morgan. Church Music Quarterly, September 2007

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9780193356191