The Misa Sine Nomine[a] (Mass Without Name) is a 1977 musical work for narrator, mixed choirs with up to 36 voices, organ, and percussion by Leon Schidlowsky.
The work is a setting of parts of the mass ordinary juxtaposed with Biblical passages in Hebrew, and texts in other languages by various contemporary authors, including by the composer himself.
[1] Jara was a Chilean folk singer who was one of the leaders of the "Nueva canción chilena" movement, as well as a poet, and human rights activist; he was arrested on 12 September 1973, the day after the coup d'état against Salvador Allende.
[2] Misa Sine Nomine is in eleven movements for different scoring: a speaker, mixed choirs with up to 36 voices, organ and percussion, including gongs and suspended cymbals:[1] The duration is given as 45 minutes.
[7] The mass was recorded in 1998 by forces from the Emmauskirche [de] in Berlin: the extended Ölberg-Chor, speaker Karl-Heinz Barthelmeus, organist Reinhard Hoffmann, and percussionists Nicole Hartig, Sebastian Trimolt, Thomas Rönnefarth and Jan Seeliger, conducted by Ingo Schulz [de].