It consists of the usual five parts, the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus and Agnus Dei. The Agnus Dei is written in four voices, while the other movements have three. The five parts are not written according to a unifying structural pattern and may have been written by different anonymous composers. The Gloria and Credo have also been independently preserved as standalone pieces in other sources. Unlike other mass cycles of the period, the Barcelona Mass contains neither a motetus over Ite, missa est nor a setting of the Benedictus, and its movements are not based on plain chant.
Recordings
Atrium Musicae de Madrid: Messe de Barcelone – Ars Nova du XIVe siècle. Harmonia Mundi 1972
Pro Cantione Antiqua, London, Mark Brown (dir.): Missa Tournai. Missa Barcelona. Harmonia Mundi 1980
Ensemble médiéval de Toulouse: La Messe de Barcelone / La Messe de Toulouse. Ariane 1988
Linnamuusikud: AD 1994. Tallinn : Linnamuusikud, 1994
Obsidienne: Barcelona Mass / Song of the Sibyl. Opus 111, 1995
References
Richard H. Hoppin, Medieval Music. Norton, 1978.
María del Carmen Gómez Muntané, El manuscrito M971 de la Biblioteca de Catalunya (Misa de Barcelona). Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya, 1989.
