September 2024: My first ever setting of the Latin Mass has just been completed. The title translates as 'Measured Mass', a reference to the work's use of mensuration canon. This is a device whereby the speed of the canons is directly related to their relative starting note. Canons at the same pitch run at the same speed; a canon an octave below moves at half the speed, a fifth below at two-thirds the speed and so on. This process is strictly adhered to, albeit with the rhythms 'quantized' to the nearest quaver for both practical and musical reasons.
The full score and a simulation recording (taken from the Sibelius file) can be found HERE