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missa
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Missa \Mis"sa\, n.; pl. Miss[ae]. [LL. See 1st Mass.] (R. C. Ch.) The service or sacrifice of the Mass.
Wiktionary
n. (context music English) a mass, in the sense of a composition setting several sung parts of the liturgic service (most often chosen from the ordinary parts Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Agnus Dei and/or sanctus) to music, notably when the text in Latin is used (as long universally prescribed by Rome)
Wikipedia
Missa (stylized MISSA) is an EP by Dir En Grey. It was released on July 25, 1997 and marks the band's debut. The sixth track, "Byou Shin", was later re-recorded for the 2002 EP, Six Ugly, while the first track, "Kiri to Mayu", was re-recorded for their 2012 single " Rinkaku". Kiri to Maryu was originally titled Sangeki no Yoru, with different lyrics. This version can be found on their music video compilation Kaede: If Trans....
Missa may refer to:
- Mass (liturgy)
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Mass (music), a choral composition that sets liturgical text to music
- Missa brevis
- Missa solemnis (explains the term and lists several works)
- Miss A, a Korean girl group
- Missa pro defunctis and Missa defunctorum - alternative names for the Requiem mass
- For the etymological root of missa see Ite missa est
Usage examples of "missa".
The former were introduced by the Roman Christians, who came to England at the close of the sixth century under Augustine, and relate chiefly to ecclesiastical affairs, such as saint from sanctus, religion from religio, chalice from calix, mass from missa, etc.
Missa Solemnis in C Minor, a work so obscure that according to the library checkout sheet, no one at the university had even looked at it for more than thirty years.
He longed for the minor sacred offices, to be vested with the tunicle of subdeacon at high mass, to stand aloof from the altar, forgotten by the people, his shoulders covered with a humeral veil, holding the paten within its folds or, when the sacrifice had been accomplished, to stand as deacon in a dalmatic of cloth of gold on the step below the celebrant, his hands joined and his face towards the people, and sing the chant Ite missa est.
We go to the eleven o'clock solemn High Mass, with plain-song propers sung by the Ritual Choir (that's Darcy Dwyer's lot) and a missa brevis and motet sung by the Gallery Choir, which is like angels, if angels can sing, which I suppose they do.