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While most hymnal settings keep the second person pronoun, other settings change the second person pronoun to the third person. A variant exists in Lutheran settings of the Sanctus. The Sanctus is a doxology praising the Trinity.

The purpose of singing these two texts in Latin is to engender a sense of unity in the faithful, all of whom thus sing the prayer of Jesus and the shared belief of the universal Church in the same language. Organizers of international celebrations, such as World Youth Day, have been encouraged by Rome to familiarize congregants in the Latin chants for the Our Father and the Credo, specifically Credo III (17th century, Fifth Mode) from the Missa de Angelis. The Credo, a setting of the Nicene Creed, is the longest text of a sung Mass. In Order One of the newer Common Worship liturgy, however, it is restored to its earlier season. In Mass settings (normally in English) composed for the Church of England’s Book of Common Prayer liturgy, the Gloria is commonly the last movement, because it occurs in this position in the text of the service.

The Gloria is a celebratory passage praising God the Father and Christ. Musical settings exist in styles ranging from Gregorian chant to folk.Īs the Kyrie is the first item in settings of the mass ordinary and the second in the requiem mass (the only mass proper set regularly over the centuries), nearly all of the thousands of composers over the centuries who have set the ordinaries of the mass to music have included a Kyrie movement. Kyrie movements often have an ternary (ABA) musical structure that reflects the symmetrical structure of the text. It is usually (but not always) part of any musical setting of the Mass. The repeated phrase is “Kyrie, eleison” (or “Lord, have mercy”). In the Tridentine Mass, the Kyrie is the first sung prayer of the Mass ordinary. OrdinariumĪ Missa tota (“full Mass”) consists of a musical setting of the five sections of the ordinarium, as listed below: I. Forms of the MassĪ distinction is made between texts that recur for every mass celebration ( ordinarium, ordinary), and texts that are sung depending on the occasion ( proprium, proper). Many Masses, especially later ones, were never intended to be performed during the celebration of an actual mass.

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Masses can be a cappella, that is, without an independent accompaniment, or they can be accompanied by instrumental obbligatos up to and including a full orchestra. Musical Masses take their name from the Catholic liturgy called “the Mass” as well. For example, there are many Masses (often called “Communion Services”) written in English for the Church of England. Most Masses are settings of the liturgy in Latin, the liturgical sacred language of the Catholic Church’s Roman liturgy, but there are a significant number written in the languages of non-Catholic countries where vernacular worship has long been the norm. The Mass, a form of sacred musical composition, is a choral composition that sets the invariable portions of the Eucharistic liturgy (principally that of the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and Lutheranism) to music.

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