Favorite Mass setting?

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Phemie said:
I did attend a lot of funerals as a kid.
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Alas our choir has done lots of funerals as well, including a week and a half ago that of the wife of one of our choristers, who died at age 60 of metastatic breast cancer.

But this year we did something UNIQUE for another chorister. We sang at the wedding, in Gregorian chant, of his daughter. I’ve been a chorister for 14 years and it’s the first time ever that we provided Gregorian chant for a wedding. Lovely wedding it was too, it was so encouraging to see two thoughtful and faithful young Catholics taking the counter-cultural route by getting married in the Church.
 
OraLabora said:
XVIII is the easiest Sanctus and our choir uses it a lot for that reason because we try to encourage the faithful to sing the ordinary with us (which is why we overuse the Gloria and Kyrie from Mass VIII).

It’s the Sanctus for the Mass of the Dead, BTW.
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Speaking of the Mass of the Dead, each of the Agnus Dei repetitions ends with “dona eis requiem” with the third one “dona eis requiem sempiternam.”

youtube.com/watch?v=dsFOxPa-r_4

I think it applies in the OF or maybe as an option?
 
ProVobis said:
Speaking of the Mass of the Dead, each of the Agnus Dei repetitions ends with “dona eis requiem” with the third one “dona eis requiem sempiternam.”

youtube.com/watch?v=dsFOxPa-r_4

I think it applies in the OF or maybe as an option?
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It’s not an option any longer in the OF AFAIK.

Our abbey’s choirmaster has a joke about it, about someone in the monastery being a pain being told off by saying “dona mei requiem sempiternam”.
 
Has anyone heard or sung a Mass setting with its own arrangement of the Credo (creed) instead of the 4 usual Credo settings?
 
It was really interesting to see all the different replies! I’m still a real newbie at all of this, so seeing different opinions from Catholics all around is cool.
 
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