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parody mass

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English

Syllables
par-o-dy -mass
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A musical setting of the mass, typically from the 16th century, that uses multiple voices of a pre-existing piece of music, such as a fragment of a motet or a secular chanson, as part of its melodic material.

Inflected Forms

parody masses (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

cantus firmus paraphrase mass

Questions

What does parody mass mean?
A musical setting of the mass, typically from the 16th century, that uses multiple voices of a pre-existing piece of music, such as a fragment of a motet or a secular chanson, as part of its melodic material.

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