Instrumentation of Kodaly Missa Brevis

3 Flutes (Fl III: Picc.)

2 Oboes

2 Clarinets in Bb

2 Bassoons

4 Horns in F

3 Trumpets in C

3 Trombones

Tuba

Timpani

Organ (ad lib)

Strings

This work was first written as an organ mass and sometimes is still performed as such where a pipe organ is used instead of an orchestra.

LINDEN LEA (song)

ON WENLOCK EDGE (song cycle for voice, piano and string quartet)

SYMPHONIES 1-9 (including no. 1, 'A Sea Symphony', for soloists, chorus & orchestra; no. 2, 'A London Symphony'; no. 3, 'A Pastoral Symphony', really a meditation on his experiences in World War I; and no. 7, 'Sinfonia Antartica', re-worked from his score for the film 'Scott of the Antarctic'.)

FANTASIA ON A THEME BY THOMAS TALLIS (strings)

THE LARK ASCENDING (for violin and small orchestra)

JOB: A MASQUE FOR DANCING (ballet and concert score)

MASS IN G MINOR (choral, unaccompanied)

SANCTA CIVITAS [The Holy City] (soloists/choral)

FLOS CAMPI [Flower of the Field] (viola/chorus/orchestra. Wordless, but founded on the Song of Songs)

FIVE TUDOR PORTRAITS (soloists/chorus/orchestra)

SERENADE TO MUSIC (for 16 soloists and orchestra. Written for Sir Henry Wood's golden jubilee, it sets words from Act 5 of Shakespeare's 'Merchant of Venice')

DONA NOBIS PACEM (soloists/choral)

HODIE [This Day] (Christmas work of original music for soloists, chorus & orchestra)

HUGH THE DROVER (Opera)

SIR JOHN IN LOVE (Opera based on Shakespeare's 'Merry Wives of Windsor')

THE POISONED KISS (comic opera with some dialogue)

THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS : a Morality (Opera based on Bunyan's book)

RIDERS TO THE SEA (one-act opera setting J. M. Synge's eponymous play almost word-for-word)

'49th PARALLEL' [US title: 'The Invaders'] (score for the Powell/Pressburger film)

'SCOTT OF THE ANTARCTIC' (film score)

You could be describing opera or an operetta or a work in musical theatre.

Concerto

You're thinking of Henich Biber's Missa Alleluja, which appeared in an album compiled by Konrad Junghagel. The Mass proper for the dedication of a church is interspersed with the ordinary set by Biber, but other than this album taking a church's dedication as a contextual starting point, the Mass setting has nothing to do with a church dedication. Following the recording of this mass, they actually chose a generic vespers and interspersed the antiphons for this same feast day as if they suited the text : the problem that arose is that the last psalm is not proper to the dedication of a church, even though the antiphons would have you think so. Bad liturgical research !