A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Missa Super Voces Musicales

MISSA SUPER VOCES MUSICALES (Missa, Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La). A Mass in which the six sounds of the Hexachord are used as a Canto fermo. [See Hexachord.] Splendid specimens of the style are extant, by Josquin des Prés, Palestrina, and Francesco Suriano.

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