Missa Brevis

Complete Work Title: 

Missa Brevis


Performance Medium: 

mixed choir (24 voices) with miscellaneous hand-held wind/percussion instruments (6 ocarinas, 5 handbells, 2 metal clickers, triangle, pitch pipe, and claves).


Movements: 

Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus
Agnus Dei


Duration: 

c.6:30


Dedication: 

to Charles Lindsley and the Kellogg Chamber Singers of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona


Date Composed: 

February - March 1987


Performance/Broadcast History: 
  • 31 May 1989; California State Polytechnic University, Pomona [premiere]

    Kellogg Chamber Singers; Charles Lindsley, director