sung Mass
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sung Mass
First recorded in 1520–30
Example Sentences
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A procession and sung Mass will be at 4:30 p.m.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2016
Names of the faithful departed will be read at both the noon Mass and the sung Mass at 7 p.m.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2016
A sung Mass begins at 5 p.m. with music by the 16th-century sacred music composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2015
He wrote the sung Mass after clergymen friends had complained to him about their congregations' distaste for traditional liturgical music.
From Time Magazine Archive
And on the morn all the priests and clerks that might be gotten in the country were there and sung Mass of Requiem.
From Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by J. M. (Jean Mary) Stone
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