Galloway Music
supporting musicians in the Diocese of Galloway in South West Scotland.
Mass Settings - new missal translation
We will be featuring Mass Settings by local composers in this section. If you would like your setting included please contact us.
Mass settings are posted on the understanding that their composers are happy for people to download the music and use it and reproduce it freely; however if you are downloading settings please include copyright acknowledgments.
Whereas Galloway Music Network are happy to post settings on this site, they are not providing any recommendations about their quality or suitability for use in the Liturgy.
Downloadable music settings are also available from other Scottish web sites, including Forth in Praise and St Mungo Music (see the Links page).
Text 'The Order of Mass' copyright 2010, International Commission on English in the Liturgy
Aurora Mass
by Nicola Lawrence
The Aurora Mass is a simple setting for use in parishes with limited musical resources.
The melodies of the Kyrie and Lamb of God are related; as are the melodies of the Sanctus and the three Memorial Acclamations. There is also a Gospel Acclamation and Lenten Acclamation.
To make it easier for a congregation to learn, the Gloria is divided into three verses with a refrain between each. The short phrases at the start of each verse are set to a very simple rhythmic melody, the longer phrases which follow are set to a responsorial-psalm-type chant.
Mass Settings
By Harry McFarlane
Harry McFarlane LTCL was born in Ayr in 1929 and has been involved in parish and national church music for over seventy years, as organist, choir-master and occasional composer. In 1964 he helped to produce the 'St Andrew Hymnal' and in 1976 he composed the 'St John Ogilvie' Mass for 5000 Scots pilgrims during the canonization celebrations in Rome (parts of which are included in this music).
Harry found it interesting to write music for the revised Mass texts. and attempt was made to keep it melodic and atmospheric. Feel free to try it out and contact the composer on 01292 470662 if you wish.
Solera Gloria
by Nicola Lawrence
This is also a setting with verses and refrain. To make it simpler to learn, the melody and rhythm of the first and third verses are the same. The second verse is in a different (minor) key, but there is repetition within the verse in the melody of the lines 'you take away the sins of the world' and 'you are seated at the right hand of the Father'.
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