Paul Winter - Missa Gaia / Earth Mass [Living Music Records LMR-2] (1982)

Released: 1982
Country: US
Label: Living Music Records
Catalog: LMR-2
Genre: New Age, Neo-Classical

Item# SR-LILMR2
Ratings: C=VG-; LP=VG+

Note: Includes 16 page booklet

T R A C K L I S T:
01 Canticle Of Brother Sun
02 Kyrie
03 Beatitudes
04 Mystery
05 Return To Gaia
06 For The Beauty Of The Earth
07 Adoro Te Devote
08 For The Beauty Of The Earth
09 Sanctus
10 Stained-Glass Morning
11 Sun Psalm
12 Song Of Praise
13 Dance Of Gaia
14 The Promise Of A Fisherman
15 The Blue Green Hills Of Earth
16 Agnus Dei
17 Let Us Go Forth In Peace




Missa Gaia / Earth Mass
Paul Winter


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Missa Gaia/Earth Mass is an album released by Paul Winter in 1982 for Living Music. The title stems from two languages, Latin (missa = mass) and Greek (gaia = mother nature). The Earth Mass was one of the first contributions made by Paul Winter when he and his Paul Winter Consort became the artists in residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. The mass includes the usual text, such as the Kyrie and the Agnus Dei, and also other text, hymns, and instrumental pieces. The mass is an environmental liturgy of contemporary music. It features the instrumentation of the Paul Winter Consort along with a choir, vocal soloists, and the calls of wolves, whales, and many other animals that are woven into the pieces, sometimes used as the melody.

Since it was first written, the mass is performed annually at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine at The Feast of St. Francis which is the blessing of the animals. [wikipedia.org]