Catholic Church music {mass, music} {missa} can be for communion thanksgiving service {Eucharistic Service} {Liturgy of the Faithful}, held daily between terce and sept.
parts
Mass starts with preparation {Preface, mass} followed by main events {Sacrifice, mass}. The Sacrifice has three parts: offering {Offertory, mass}, blessing {Consecration}, and partaking {Communion}. Congregations or priests sing mass parts that stay the same {ordinary, mass}. Parts that change daily {proper, mass} are refrains or chants.
Singers can read or intone the lessons using mainly one pitch {lection tone}. Psalms use music phrases in which pitch {psalm tone} rises, plateaus, and then falls.
Preface
First part {Introit} is the entrance and has an antiphon refrain. Next comes the psalm verse, different for different days of year. Next comes the doxology. Next comes Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy). Next comes the optional gloria: "Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost" (Gloria Patri) or "Glory to God in the highest" (Gloria in Excelsis Deo). Next comes Te Deum Laudamus (We praise thee God). After the prayers and the lesson, a song {gradual, mass} precedes a rejoicing song {alleluia}, on regular days, or a sad song {tractus, mass}, for penitence or mourning days. Gloria, gradual, and alleluia or tractus change daily. After the Bible lesson comes a song {credo, mass} (creed).
Sacrifice
The Sacrifice has five steps {Sequentia}. First is the Offertory refrain, different every day. During Consecration, a song {sanctus} (holy) accompanies canon prayers, and a priest sings the Lord's prayer. During Communion, a choir sings Agnus Dei (Lamb of God). After Communion, a choir sings a refrain, and mass ends with a song {dismissal, mass}.
Renaissance
Renaissance masses used same phrase at ordinary-part beginnings {head-motif} or same melody for all mass parts {cantus firmus}.
prayers
Dominus Vobiscum (The Lord be with you) can precede formal prayers. Ave Maria (Hail Mary) is a three-part prayer but is not in the mass.
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