Missa sine nomine

A Missa sine nomine, literally a "Mass without a name", is a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass, usually from the Renaissance, which uses no pre-existing musical source material, as was

20th century#

In 1977, Leon Schidlowsky composed a work that he called Misa Sine Nomine and dedicated to the Chilean human rights activist Victor Jara; the text is a juxtaposition of part of the mass ordinary with both Bible verses in Hebrew and contemporary texts, and he wrote it for different combinations of narrator, choirs, organ and percussion.

References#

Ronald Cross, review of Capella Cordina recording directed by Alejandro Planchart, in The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Jan., 1974), pp. 154-159
Program notes to February 3, 2007 concert at UCLA
Lewis Lockwood/Andrew Kirkman, Mass, II. Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed April 19, 2007), (subscription access)
Jennifer Bloxam, “Masses on Polyphonic Songs”, in Scherr, Richard, ed. The Josquin Companion. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000. .

Genre family: Renaissance music