Nothing Ordinary About It: The Mass Proper as Early Music Jigsaw Puzzle

arly music scholars Patrick Macey and Russell Murray, Jr. have pinpointed two common classroom challenges posed by music from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: the vast cultural gulf separating these eras from contemporary students, and the question of how to teach musical and cultural continuities across such a large span of time.1 These challenges are particularly acute in the undergraduate music history survey, which is frequently...