Revised Heritage Mass Mass Setting by Owen Alstott

The revised Heritage Mass mass setting by Owen Alstott and OCP. This video includes the Gloria, Sanctus, Memorial Acclamations A, B, and C. Published by OCP, www.ocp.org. Used with permission. Excerpts from the English translation of The Roman Missal © 2010, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

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• Memorial Acclamations

[MassSettings]

I meant parts of mass.

[MassSettings]

@Shenandoah58 Soooo true! The other week our accompanist was gone so the director played everything on the organ and one of the people in my section complained about it. I actually quit going to the choir mass a long time ago because the organ seldom got used and they don't let the people sing. They use "special" songs that the choir sings. I'm in the choir now, so I go, I do miss the other masses just for the fact that all we do is sing choral songs. The congregation only sings the parts.

[MassSettings]

I think this is probably the best of all the revised settings. It's almost like he wrote it the first time to these words and then changed it for the old one. The old one has us holding notes left and right. This one just flows. What do you think?

[Shenandoah58]

@NortheastOrganist Yep they did. Playing a piano in a church that has a decent organ is like having a hot dog when filet mignon is available. 

[glenn0914]

I was just wondering if someone can share the SATB music sheet of this revised Heritage Mass. I would really appreciate it very much if I could get the SATB music sheets for our choir. Please do email me in this email add: glenn_0914@yahoo.com....God bless you for sharing!

[NEMeinradt]

TheSensibleCatholic, I appreciate the thoughtful comment below, and concur that the over use of the tune has probably been a factor in my lack of interest in hearing it again. The local parish has chosen this setting sung, either with or with out a choir, for ten years. Sadly, with all of the new settings to choose from available from OCP, Heritage Mass setting is still the number one choice of that parish.

[TheSensibleCatholic]

@NEMeinradt are you sure you're talking about the right setting? This setting is through-composed and by far one of the shortest (just looking at many of the other files of recordings will tell you that), and cadences frequently (how exactly is it too dissonant?). The fact that it is "too overused by mediocre choirs" speaks to the crisis of sacred music in the Catholic Church. I'm sure this would be palatable to you if you heard it prayed by a choir that actually read music.

[hughbe40]

beautiful traditional setting. If you are looking for something more upbeat and contemporary, please go to my channel and check my videos.

[MrOrganist21]

Wow, 0 dislikes, that just goes to show how great of a Mass setting this is!

[serenityoct04]

Thanks for sharing this!