How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, 3rd Edition Season 1 Episode 5 The Renaissance Mass
- November 1, 2023
- 45 min
This lecture introduces the mass as the most important compositional genre of the Renaissance. The mass itself is defined and the ceremony is discussed in detail, in particular the nature and content of the Proper and Ordinary. We then examine the Renaissance musical setting of the Ordinary of the mass and the three types of Renaissance masses.