Starting with Giovanni Contino in 1560, numerous Italian composers wrote settings of the Proper.
But composers still wrote settings for orchestra, chorus, and soloists, notable examples being Franz Liszt, Charles-François Gounod, and Anton Bruckner.
It was after vocalist and composer Norma Winstone invited him to write settings for her atmospheric songs that he began working with the NDR Big Band.
Hundreds of composers wrote settings of the ordinary of the mass at this time; some, like the Italian composer Giovanni da Palestrina, wrote more than 100 masses.
Renaissance and Baroque composers wrote settings of the Tenebrae services sung at churches during the last three days of Holy Week, at which candles are gradually extinguished.
Another exciting June event will be Alfred Brendel's seventieth-anniversary concert; Thomas Adès, Luciano Berio and Harrison Birtwistle have written settings of the pianist's poems, and Brendel is soloist in piano concertos by Mozart and Schumann (30 June).
The idea is actually not so unusual: think of all the Renaissance and Baroque composers who wrote settings of Tenebrae services, to be sung in gradually darkened churches during the three days leading to Easter.
He wrote settings of the preces and responses, the litany, and a complete service "in the Dorian mode," which consists of the morning and evening canticles and the Communion service.
DVDFab's default write settings will work just fine for those wanting simple copies.
In writing polyphonic settings of psalms, Josquin was a pioneer, and psalm settings form a large proportion of the motets of his later years.
