[53]It is worthy of note, as a singular instance of the exaltation of a comparatively unimportant word, that the word Mass, Lat. Missa, is taken from the ancient formula of dismissal, Ite, missa est.
[54]Wagner, _Einführung in die Gregorianischen Melodien_.
[56]Gevaert first announced his conclusions in a discourse pronounced at a public session of the class in fine arts of the Academy of Belgium at Brussels, and which was published in 1890, under the title of _Les Origines du Chant liturgique de l’ Église latine._ This essay was amplified five years later into a volume of 446 pages, entitled _La Mélopée antique dans le Chant de l’ Église latine_. These works are published by Ad. Hoste, Ghent.
[57]Lemaire, _Le Chant, ses principes et son histoire_.
[58]Green, _Short History of the English People_.
[59]Montalembert, _The Monks of the West_, vol. ii.
[60]Montalembert, _The Monks of the West_, vol. ii.
[62]Ambros, _Geschichte der Musik_, vol. ii.
[63]The offices, chiefly conventual, in which the chant is employed throughout are exceptions to the general rule.
[64]This distinction between harmony and counterpoint is fundamental, but no space can be given here to its further elucidation. The point will easily be made clear by comparing an ordinary modern hymn tune with the first section of a fugue.
[65]Mendelssohn, in his letter to Zelter describing the music of the Sixtine Chapel, is enthusiastic over the beautiful effect of the _abellimenti_ in Allegri’s Miserere.
[66]Winterfeld, _Johannes Gabrieli und sein Zeitalter_.
[67]Jakob, _Die Kunst im Dienste der Kirche_.
[68]Wackernagel, _Das deutsche Kirchenlied von der ältesten Zeit bis zu Anfang des XVII. Jahrhunderts_.
[69]Hoffmann von Fallersleben, _Geschichte des deutschen Kirchenliedes bis auf Luther’s Zeit_.
[70]Taylor, _Studies in German Literature_.
[71]Koch, _Geschichte des Kirchenliedes und Kirchegesanges der christlichen insbesondere der deutschen evangelischen Kirche_.
[72]Bacon and Allen, editors: _The Hymns of Martin Luther set to their Original Melodies, with an English Version_.
[73]The performance of Bach’s cantatas by the Catholic Schola Cantorum of Paris is one of many testimonies to the universality of the art of this son of Lutheranism.