. The term “cyclic Mass” generally refers to polyphonic settings of most or all of the five principal items of the Ordinary of the Mass (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus-Benedictus, Agnus) as a musically unified entity. The cyclic Mass became...

The Mass, a form of sacred musical composition, is a choral composition that sets the fixed portions of the Eucharistic liturgy (principally that of the Roman Catholic Church, the Churches of the Anglican Communion, and also the Lutheran Church) to...