Penitential Mass

Penitential Mass for St Peter's.

This was a 2025 commission to compose a fresh Kyrie, Sanctus and Agnus for use during the penitential seasons of Lent and Advent. The direction I was given was that they needed to be easy to learn, and short!

Summary information

• Voicing: Solo voice/SATB

• Notes on ambitus: The Soprano has a high E-flat at one point. The Tenor has some top Fs. The Bass goes down to G.

• Instrumentation: Piano/Organ

• Approximate performance length: 2:30

• Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Releases

Version 1.0

• Sheet music (PDF, A4) for SATB and piano/organ.

• Collection of MIDI files (ZIP) generated from the above score.

• MP3 rehearsal files

  • Soprano
  • Alto
  • Tenor
  • Bass

• MP3 rendering of the MIDI files

  This is an unsophisticated rendering, so is not fully representative

Source code

This piece was written using Lilypond. The source code for it is available from my GitLab repository. To compile it yourself, you will also need my house style files.