Musical issues in the B-Minor Mass (BWV 232)

[esfield]

This is a very long, complex work. I propose to keep all musical comments in this note.

1. Kyrie eleison I, in common with other movements here and in many cantatas, calls for two oboes d'amore. When BG was originally encoded, no provision was made for written pitch (the Ob d'amore is pitched to A). For now I will put a note in the wiki calling this a reading score. Comments??

2. Eleison should not be treated consistently in movement titles. It is lower-case in Kyrie I and upper case in the Christe and Kyrie II. Which??

3. The Violino 1 is doubled by two flauti traversi on the top staff of the Kyrie I and none for the violino 2, but it looks as if each violino should be doubled by one flauto traverso.

[edcor]

2. I prefer lower case for eleison. Kyrie eleison is not a proper title in the sense of Das Lied von der Erde, but rather a reference to the text. Agnus Dei is different of course because Dei refers to God. 3. I agree with your conclusion -- each violin should be doubled by one flute.

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[esfield]

My error: "eleison...should be treated consistently, and that mostly means changing upper-case to lower-case in movement titles.

The flute/violin assymetry that Ed and I have discussed by email recurs throughout the work, e.g. in the Gratias agimus.