POTENTIAL CULTURAL VISIONS THAT CONFIGURATE THE MASS GENRE
POTENTIAL CULTURAL VISIONS THAT CONFIGURATE THE MASS GENRE

Summary/Abstract: Considered as the most important and probably oldest religious ritual, the mass1 profiles itself on the axis of the genre continuity in the historical-musical evolution of on the axis of man’s transcendental experience through its two facets. We cannot speak of the musical mass and elude the liturgical mass, of which the former is born and becomes legitimate by intertwining the semantics of sacred texts with musical expressiveness. In this article I wish to highlight a certain type of thinking, of mentality in synthetic examples, reflected in a differentiated manner by the eight cultural epochs or styles of music mentioned: the Middle Ages, Ars antiqua, Ars nova, the Renaissance, Baroque, Classicism, Romanticism and the 20th Century. Both the moments when the sacral comment invokes the presence of the mass, and when it does not, shall be distinguished.

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