Roth, Robert Ray2014-04-252014-04-252014-04-25http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17599Ralph Vaughan Williams, Igor Stravinsky, and Paul Hindemith, three prolific composers of the 20th century, wrote for the medium of the mass ordinary in different ways. This report comprises a survey of those composers’ styles using the Kyrie movement of the mass ordinary as the main vehicle of compositional exploration. The results of this compositional survey examine the form and various techniques the composers employ to garner the same emotional response from the listeners of the Kyrie text. The final portion of the report explores the author’s personal compositional contribution to the mass ordinary.en-US© the author. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ReportMusic (0413)Musical Performances (0943)