The Program for the WVC’s Spring 2025 Concerts

                        File#        Movements of Mozart's Requiem    Page*   Sung by:

                                01            1.     INTROITUS  Requiem              4            Chorus & Soprano solo

                                02            1.1   KY RIE                                       9            Chorus

                                SEQUENZ

                                03            2.     Dies irae                                    15            Chorus

                                04            3.     Tuba mirum                               22            Quartet (soprano, alto, tenor & bass solos)

                                05            4.     Rex tremendae                          25            Chorus

                                06            5.     Recordare                                  28            Quartet

                                07            6.     Confutatis                                  36            Chorus

                                08            7.     Lacrymosa                                 41            Chorus

                               OFFERTORIUM

                                09            8.     Domine Jesu                              44            Chorus & Quartet

                                10            9.     Hostias                                       52            Chorus

                                11          10.     SANCTUS                                 59            Chorus

                                12          11.     BENEDICTUS                          61            Quartet & Chorus

                                13          12.     AGNUS DEI                              68            Chorus

                                14          12.1   COMMUNIO - Lux aeterna      71            Chorus & Soprano solo

Movements to be sung at Carnegie Hall

                                15            7.      Maunder's Lacrymosa                               Chorus

                                16            7.1    Maunder’s Amen                                       Chorus

New ==> 17       12 Maunder's Agnus Dei     Chorus

(*) Page numbers and movement numbers refer to the Peters & Schirmer editions.

You can download and print out this list.  See "Mozart Requiem Movements.pdf" in the "Documents" box below.

A new collection of practice aids is available.  Look (below) for the page of practice tracks for your voice part, go to that page and scroll to near the bottom of the page.  You will find a set of seven YouTube videos covering all the movements of the Requiem.  Each video features a quartet singing the movement to an orchestral background.  One voice is enhanced.  Excellent method to the learn the notes, pronunciations, melismas and rhythms.   Thank you Doug McGlynn for finding these videos.

The file: "Mozart Requiem - Letter-Number X-index" (in the "Documents" box below) maps the rehearsal letters in each movement to the # of the corresponding measure for the Peters and Schirmer editions of the vocal score.  Use this document to annotate your score (in pencil, of course) with the measure numbers and (if you have another edition of the score) the rehearsal letters.

Note: In the Peters & Schirmer editions, the Kyrie is part of and at the end (page 9) of the 1st movement: “No. 1, Requiem”.  Similarly the Lux aeterna is at the end (on page 71) of the last movement, “No. 12, Angus Dei.”  Most other scores of this requiem treat the Kyrie and Lux aeterna as separate movements.

Here is the Wikipedia article about the Mozart Requiem:  Click here.

Here is the link to the IMDB page about the 1984 film Amadeus.  Click here.

Click here for Practice Tracks for Sopranos.

Click here for Practice Tracks for Altos.

Click here for Practice Tracks for Tenors.

Click here for Practice Tracks for Basses.

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Click here for Practice Tracks for all voices together.

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Practice Tracks for the soloists: click here.

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Tune in and sing along Mozart's Requiem by watching these YouTube videos, here.

New ==> Click here to play YouTube videos of the Maunder edition of the Requiem.

Listen to a performance of the Requiem by the WVC in April 1991, here.

Cyberbass and Choralia have excellent practice aids for the Mozart Requiem. Give them a try.

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Documents for Spring 2025

New ==> The vocal score for the Maunder edition of the Agnus Dei can be found in the box below:  Mozart-Requiem-Maunder-Agnus Dei - Full Score.pdf

The document "Vocal Score - Mozart_Requiem=CPDL.pdf" is a vocal score "in the public domain" for Mozart's Requiem.  It was downloaded from the Choral Public Domain Library web site:  https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/.   Also the International Music Score Library Project (imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page) is an excellent resource for music scores in the public domain.

"Mozart Requiem Movements.pdf" is a listing of the 14 movements of the piece plus the movements from the Maunder edition: Lacrymosa and Amen and Agnus Dei.