Manuscript showing the opening Kyrie of the Missa de Beata Virgine, a late work by Josquin des Prez, and a paraphrase mass. Each of the voices sings a version of the source plainchant, elaborated or "paraphrased".
A paraphrase mass is a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass that uses as its basis an elaborated version of a cantus firmus, typically chosen from plainsong or some other sacred source. It was a common means of mass composition from the late 15th century until the end of the 16th century, during the Renaissance period in music history, and was most frequently used by composers in the parts of western Europe which remained under the direct control of the Roman Catholic Church. It is distinguished from the other types of mass composition, including cyclic mass, parody, canon, soggetto cavato, free composition, and mixtures of these techniques.
A paraphrasemass is a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass that uses as its basis an elaborated version of a cantus firmus, typically chosen from...
types of mass composition during the Renaissance, the cantus firmus and the paraphrasemass. In the sense considered here, the term parody mass applies...
include the "motto" mass (or "head-motif" mass), cantus-firmus mass or tenor mass, soggetto cavato mass, paraphrasemass, parody mass, as well as masses...
as the paraphrase technique; this compositional method became important in composition of masses by the late 15th century. (See paraphrasemass.) The cyclic...
Virgine 4 11 1567 ParaphraseMass IX, Credo I, Mass XVII Missa de beata Virgine (vel dominicalis) 6 12 1570 ParaphraseMass IX, Credo I, Mass XVII Missa de...
Struggle Ecclesiastical Latin Lutheran and Anglican Mass in music Cyclic mass vs. Paraphrasemass Roman vs. Sarum Rites Sequence (retained by Lutherans...
Lady Mass, it is a votive mass for Saturday performance, and was his most popular mass in the 16th century. The best known of Josquin's paraphrase masses...
Deutsche Messe Ecclesiastical Latin Lutheran and Anglican Mass in music Cyclic mass vs. Paraphrasemass Roman vs. Sarum Rites Sequence (retained by Lutherans...
Struggle Ecclesiastical Latin Lutheran and Anglican Mass in music Cyclic mass vs. Paraphrasemass Roman vs. Sarum Rites Sequence (retained by Lutherans...
Struggle Ecclesiastical Latin Lutheran and Anglican Mass in music Cyclic mass vs. Paraphrasemass Roman vs. Sarum Rites Sequence (retained by Lutherans...
allowed him to lay down additional theses including the rejection of the Mass, Purgatory, and prayers for the dead. John Knox's chaplaincy of the castle...
Struggle Ecclesiastical Latin Lutheran and Anglican Mass in music Cyclic mass vs. Paraphrasemass Roman vs. Sarum Rites Sequence (retained by Lutherans...
being a six-voice paraphrasemass on the gregorian antiphon posthumously published in Missarum, Liber 12 (1601), and a polychoral mass for 18vv of doubtful...
the most famous of Brumel's masses was his Missa de beata virgine, a paraphrasemass using elaborations of various plainchant melodies. According to Heinrich...
Cyclic mass (tenor mass) Paraphrasemass Imitation mass Masses were normally titled by the source from which they borrowed. Cantus firmus mass uses the...
the offering of the Mass. However they denied the right of sinful priests to give the Eucharist. Early forms of the Waldensian Mass sought to recover the...
Sick, Penance and the Eucharist. The Eucharist was celebrated during the Mass, the central act of Catholic worship. In this service, a priest consecrated...
Parody mass – A mass where an existing piece of music, often a secular chanson or motet, is reworked into a liturgical context. Paraphrasemass – A mass that...
Struggle Ecclesiastical Latin Lutheran and Anglican Mass in music Cyclic mass vs. Paraphrasemass Roman vs. Sarum Rites Sequence (retained by Lutherans...
Struggle Ecclesiastical Latin Lutheran and Anglican Mass in music Cyclic mass vs. Paraphrasemass Roman vs. Sarum Rites Sequence (retained by Lutherans...
in Italy in the early 1480s. Some of the earliest examples of the paraphraseMass are by Martini. His Missa domenicalis and Missa ferialis, which have...
Dun. In 1541 Parliament passed legislation to protect the honour of the Mass, prayer to the Virgin Mary, images of the saints, and the authority of the...
the service, and purged all references to sacrifice from the traditional Mass. He shouted rather than whispered the words of institution ("This is my body...
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