Deutsche Messe

A Mighty Fortress is great, but I think he's got ones out there that are honestly way better.

Um, the Deutsche Messe as a whole I think is fa- fascinating and fantastic in its own way.

I don't think that it should ever really replace, um, like a standard, uh, like Lutheran divine service as you'd find it in, for example, uh, DS III or DS one and two, or even like the Formula missa.

I don't think it was really a good replacement for the Formula missa.

But I do think that it's fascinating in its own right.

Um, and some of his musical instincts sort of show when he's writing that book.

If you read, for example, the work on the Deutsche Messe-

Mm-hmm

He does do a careful pruning of the Mass.

There are elements that are gradually changed initially within Latin, and eventually he does introduce the German Mass, the Deutsche Messe.

And he does this...

in a very careful way that retains the essential structure of the Mass that had been received by the people that they had been used to.