missa

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• The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's performance of Beethoven's Missa was one of the highlights of the season.

• Beethoven's Missa Solemnis is considered a monumental work in the choral repertoire.

• "From the heart, may it reach other hearts," wrote Beethoven on the top of the page of the score for the Missa Solemnis.

  Academic text (2002)

• Josquin Desprez: Missa "Pange lingua"

  Academic text (1992)

• I think it is easier to manage and anticipate the one-year cycle (there's something comforting about being able to refer to "Missa Quasimodo).

  Blog text (31)

• Proportion and harmony are features of creative works as diverse as Shakespeare's King Lear, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, and Joyce's Ulysses.

  Academic text (2004)

• They'll offer two programs this time: a rare performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" on Monday, the Ninth, preceded by Beethoven's cantata "Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage" on Tuesday.

  Blog text (4)

• During the service, the choir beautifully sang the Missa settings composed by Josquin Desprez.

Synonyms

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Mass

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A long religious musical work for choir and orchestra that uses words from the church service

is the Latin title form often used as a work's name

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Etymology