Two Masses for Organ(库伯宁两部管风琴弥撒曲)

One of the greatest figures of the French classical school, Francois Couperin (1668-1733), called le grand, was royal organist at the court of Louis XIV and the leading French composer of his day. Trained early as an organist, he possessed solid contrapuntal skills as well as a softness and naturalness of style characteristic of French music. His two masses for organ were his only compositions for this instrument.
　　Published when Couperin was only 21, his organ masses display not only a thoroughly assured compositional technique, but a rich gift for melodic lines both expressive and ebullient. The majestic Messe pour les Paroisses was intended for use on principal feast days of the church. Messe pour les Couvents is more intimate in style, possibly used with a pseudo-plainchant musical mass popular in French religious communities in the late 17th century. Both works, reproduced here from earlier authoritative editions, stand at the summit of French classic organ composition.

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Glossary of French Terms in the Music
Mass for the Parishes (1690)
[Messe a l'usage ordinaire des Paroisses, pour les Festes Solemnelles]
　Plainchant of the First Kyrie, en Taille
　Fugue on the Jeux d'Anches (2nd Kyrie)
　Recit de Cromorne (3rd Kyrie)
　Dialogue on the Trompette and Cromorne (4th Kyrie)
　Plainchant (Sth and last Kyrie)
　Plein Jeu (Et in terra pax)
　Little Fugue on the Cromorne (Gloria, 2nd verse)
　Duet on the Tierces (Gloria, 3rd verse)
　Dialogue between the Trompettes, Clairon and Tierces of the Grand Clavier and the Bourdon with the Larigot of the Positif (Gloria, 4th verse)
　Trio for Two Manuals on the Cromorne and the Basse de Tierce (Gloria, 5th verse)
　Tierce en Taille (Gloria, 6th verse)
　Dialogue on the Voix Humaine (Gloria, 7th verse)
　Trio Dialogue of the Cornet and the Tierce (Gloria, 8th verse)
　Dialogue on the Grands Jeux (Gloria, 9th and last verse)
　Offertory on the Grands Jeux
　Plainchant of the First Sanctus, in Canon
　RScit de Cornet (2nd Sanctus)
　Benedictus, Cromorne en Taille
　Plainchant of the Agnus Dei, alternately en Basse and en Taille
　Dialogue on the Grands Jeux (3rd Agnus)
　Deo Gratias, Petit Plein Jeu
Mass for the Convents (1690)
[Messe pour les Convents de Religieux et Religieuses]
　Plein Jeu (1st Kyrie)
　Fugue on the Trompette (2nd Kyrie)
　Rdcit de Cromorne (3rd Kyrie)
　Trio for Two Manuals on the Cromorne and the Basse de Tierce (4th Kyrie)
　Dialogue between the Trompette of the Grand Clavier and the Montre, Bourdon and Nazard of the Positif (5th and last Kyrie)
　Plein Jeu (Gloria, 1st verse)
　Little Fugue on the Cromorne (Gloria, 2nd verse)
　Duet on the Tierces (Gloria, 3rd verse)
　Basse de Trompette (Gloria, 4th verse)
　Cromorne sur la Taille (Gloria, 5th verse)
　Dialogue on the Voix Humaine (Gloria, 6th verse)
　Trio: Upper voices on the Tierce and bass on the Trompette (Gloria, 7th verse)
　Rdcit de Tierce (Gloria, 8th verse)
　Dialogue on the Grands Jeux (Gloria, last verse)
　Offertory on the Grands Jeux
　First Sanctus, Plein Jeu
　Rdcit de Cornet (2nd Sanctus)
　Elevation, Tierce en Taille
　Agnus Dei, Plein Jeu
　Dialogue on the Grands Jeux (Conclusion of the Agnus Dei)
　Deo Gratias, Petit Plein Jeu