Mozart Requiem Choir Notes

	Movement	Bar(s)	Part(s)	Comment
FROM 06/11/2025
	Rex tremendae	e.g. 7	All	The short notes (i.e. semiquavers) must be very short indeed! Everywhere.
		7-14	All	Fully sung, blossoming long notes.
	Confutatis	Opening	T/B	Direct sound, as if the main notes have slight accents.
		7/17	S/A	Don’t creep in: a clear start to the long notes.
	Sanctus	Osanna	All	Lighter and not so fast.
	Communio	31ff	All	Fugal theme is not legato. 4th note is loudest. In the counter theme first 3 quavers are short.
FROM 17/10/2025
	Everywhere		All	Mark in pronunciation ‘changes’ (such as ‘-qu-‘ = ‘-kv-‘ and ‘-ce-‘ – ‘-ts-‘) throughout your score, if you need.
			All	Please go through all this pages’ notes
EARLIER NOTES
	Requiem	Opening	All	Nice rolled R and remember the the QU is pronounced as a KV!
		14	All	Accent beat 2 small dim to beat 3
		15/16	All	Cresc to middle of bar
		17	All	Strong ‘Lu-‘ then dim.
		18-19	All	Dim into 19
		30-31	S/B	One phrase
		32	All	Quaver only
		43-start of 46	All	Cresc. to 3rd beat of each phrase then away
		46-48	All	From ‘et’ one phrase
	Kyrie	Everywhere!	All	Kyrie: Y is pronounced Ü. The subject and countersubject as below. Note that the beginning of each should be louder than the faster notes that follow.
		Opening	All	Main subject (Kyrie): slight detaching of the 3rd and 4th beats (crotchets). Cut the dotted crotched short in the 3rd bar. Legato in 4th bar.
		Opening	All	Countersubject (Christe): quavers marcato, semi-quavers crescendo, dim in 3rd bar.
		23	All	Dim so that 24 is mp (but keep the phrasing of the subjects)
		35-40	All	Cresc to forte
		43	All	Dim to mp in 44
		45-49	All	Cresc to forte
	Sequenz	Opening	All	Not quite legato: slight marcato – i.e. a front to the notes, especially the crotchets. NB this results in two ‘L’s in ‘il-la’
		10ff/31ff	All	Legato!
		11	T	Strong front on ‘quan’ in 11 and 14
		31	All	Only mf
		37-39	All	Marcato minims
		40	B	‘Quantus’ mf and cresc. – but forte in 48
		42-43(etc)	S/A/T	mf and soupy!
		50	All	Fortissimo
		58ff	All	‘Stri-cte’ non legato each time
	Rex tremendae	Opening	All	Rex’ a full crotchet
		6-16	All	All semi-quavers become demi-semis
		7-10	T/B	mf only, back to f 2nd beat of 11 then stay f
		7-10	S/A	Don’t hit the higher long notes but let each one crescendo
		11	All	Small gap before beat 2
		12-14	S/A	Only mf on ‘qui salvandos’ then back to f
		12-14	T/B	Don’t hit the higher long notes but let each one crescendo
		18-19	All	Real semi-quaver / ‘me’ is a full crotchet
		20-22	All	One phrase
	Confutatis	Opening	T/B	Real semi-quavers. ‘ta-‘ stronger than ‘-tis’
		1-3 and 11-12	T/B	Strong first crotchet (on ‘-ta-‘ or ‘-di-‘)
		7ff	S/A	Small cresc. 7-8 then dim in 8. Again cresc 9-10
		13	T	2nd note semiquaver
		17-24	S	Cresc. 17-18 then away, cresc into 19, dim in 20. Strong ‘vo-‘ end of 20 and start of 22, dim 24
		17-24	A	Cresc 17-18 then away, cresc 19-20. Strong ‘vo-‘ in 21 and 22, dim 24.
		26ff	B	Long first notes of these phrases a little louder at their starts.
		26-end	All	Legato
		27-28	All	cresc then dim in 28, also 31-32, 34-35.
		37-38	All	Dim
	Lacrimosa	3-4	All	Cresc to middle of bar then dim
		5-6	All	One quaver only (i.e. short notes!)
		9-10	All	Cresc then dim in 10. Sub forte in 11.
		15	All	Wait for the start of this bar
		16	All	Last note just crotchet with ‘s’ on quaver rest.
		17	A/T/B	Last note crotchet
		17	S	Sing through 17-19.
		18	All	Dim to 19
	Domine Jesu	Opening	All	Very articulate / non legato
		1	All	Cresc
		2	All	Dim
		9/14	All	First note quaver
		11	S	Good sized breath between first 2 notes
		15-16	All	Cresc then dim. Sops ignore comma in 15 (same 18-19)
		16/19	All	Beat 3 = quaver
		21-30	T then all	Non legato – focus sound on the lower notes.
		27-30	All	Marcato ‘ne ca-dant’, especially in 29-30
		30-32	B then all	Cresc in B on ‘in ob-‘ then dim in 31
		44ff	All	Always cresc to 3rd beat of phrase. More cresc. / dim within in each of the 2 main 4 beat phrases
		71/75	All	1st note quaver
	Hostias	Opening	All	Legato
		7	All	Breathe before this bar
		16	All	mf
		20-21/43-44	All	Dim
	Sanctus	1-3	All	Full length crotchets
		5	All	Dotted crotchet on ‘-oth’ with ‘T’ therefore on final quaver
		8/9	All	Breathe end of 8 and middle of 9
		10	All	No rit.
	(Osanna)	11	B then all	mf. 2nd and 6th notes short.
		11ff	All	Dance-like feel. Light, not heavy. (and at end of Benedictus)
		33	S/T/B	cresc.
	Agnus Dei	10/41	B	Observe comma
		11	All	Sing through to 14
		25	S	Observe comma
		44-45	All	Rit.
		50	All	Dim into last bar
	Lux aeterna			Transfer markings from Requiem
	Cum Sanctis tuis			Transfer markings from Kyrie
		31ff	All	Cut the dotted crotchet (3rd bar of theme) to a crotchet. Emphasise ‘cum sanctis’ and then make the semiquavers lighter. Remember the dynamics.
		89-90	All	No rit.