Missa Solemnis in Full Score

by Ludwig van Beethoven

Book Overview

Masterpiece of sacred music is a vast symphony structured around the five divisions of the Ordinary of the Catholic Mass. Too monumental for ordinary liturgical purposes but a work that stands with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486268942
• ISBN13: 9780486268941
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.3" x 12.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellence

The Dover Full Score editions are an unprecedented buy these days. Scores, especially full orchestral, much less works like the Missa (with addition of full chorus and soloists) are so often impossible to read, poor type/space, etc. This edition is well-bound, beautifully printed, ample space for notations (and I make MANY as I study); such a great bargain. The company also delivered swiftly and packaged the book well, it arrived it perfect condition. Excellence all around. I also have the Complete Beethoven Symphonies, Mozart Piano Concerti, etc. many Dover scores and they are above all others. Don't waste your money on anything else. Even the cover designs are handsomely done and make an aesthic accent on the desk top!

Usefull for learning.

As a student of conducting, I find this to be a very usefull score. Having the choir in original cleffs, as well as the orchestral transpositions and score ordering of the Romantic era are really good practices for full score reading, and instant transposition. I find that though there are no measure numbers or letter markings, getting that information does not take long. For the price, it is worth the extra effort to learn to read cleffs.

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