Valls, Francisco - Missa Scala Aretina
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Valls, Francisco - Missa Scala Aretina

Catalogue No: NOV072333
ArrangementSATB and Organ
Product FormatSheet Music
Edition TypeVocal Score
ComposerFrancisco Valls
£21.99
Printed on demand, typically dispatched in 3-4 weeks
Pages192
ISBN9780853602989 (0853602980)
EAN5020679245415

For 11 voices in 3 choirs, instruments and continuo.
The Scala Aretina is Valls' best-known work, taking its name from the Guidonian hexachord upon which it is constructed. The mass gave rise to one of the most contestedcontroversies in the history of music: in the Qui Tollis of the Gloria, the entry of the 2nd choir soprano forms an unprepared ninths - certainly an infringement of the rules of harmony. This sparked off an unprecedentedbattle among Spanish musicians as to the value of rules in musical composition, and the value of pleasing the ear as an aesthetic principle as opposed to artistic freedom.

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