sung Mass

American  

noun

1. a Mass in which parts of the proper and the ordinary are sung rather than recited; missa cantata.

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Etymology

Origin of sung Mass

First recorded in 1520–30

Example Sentences

Names of the faithful departed will be read at both the noon Mass and the sung Mass at 7 p.m.

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 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

St. Luke's Church in Cambridge, England this week offered its congregation an experiment in popular church music: it got a clergyman-composer to present a new sung Mass in syncopated, calypso rhythm.

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 Stone, J. M. (Jean Mary)