[Kathy in Alaska]

To our Military -

Thank you for protecting us. Sleep well and safe.
May you be protected. May your families' hearts be at ease.

Thank you to our Allies.

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To those of our Military and Allies who gave their all,
- May your souls rest in peace. May your families be comforted.
May your/our country always remember.

[Publius]

This is a period instrument recording of one movement from Schubert’s Mass in E-flat, one of the last things he ever wrote. The format of the Gloria is A-B-A-C.

The A section is a wonderful and majestic melody, but Schubert has planted the diminished fifth – aka the tritone, the forbidden interval in church music – like little mines throughout. It’s just the composer being naughty.

At 3:52 the B section turns to the minor, and the melody is suspiciously like the Dies Irae from the requiem mass.

At 7:56, the A section returns in drastically shortened form.

At 8:47, the C section is a long fugue. Schubert was taking counterpoint lessons from Simon Sechter, and this is a good example of how fugues began popping up like mushrooms in Schubert’s output in his last year. The tritone is the glue that holds the fugue together, and it pops up everywhere.

Schubert: Mass in E-flat, D. 950, Gloria