Mass (music) - Form of The Mass

Form of The Mass

Generally, for a composition to be a full Mass, it must contain the following sections, which together constitute the ordinary of the Eucharist:

Read more about this topic:  Mass (music)

Famous quotes containing the words form of, form and/or mass:

    At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach,
    A fisherman stood aghast,
    To see the form of a maiden fair,
    Lashed close to a drifting mast.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counterauthority to the law.
    Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

    Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
    Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)