In the tradition of Protestant missa brevis compositions, the music of this Mass was written in the socalled stile antico” following 16thcentury models and known as Palestrina style. The surviving copy, in the Düben Collection, dates from 1675. Buxtehude adopted the strict form of the “stile antico,” contrapuntal polyphony without instrumental accompaniment for various compositions of the same period, including Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin BuxWV 76, written on the death of his father. The Missa brevis consists of the Kyrie and Gloria of the Ordinarium, so it is a “Lutheran Mass”; in 17thcentury Protestant services these sections of the Mass were sung in Latin.
- ISMN: 9790007213916 (M007213916)
