Missa_Cantata Missa Cantata (Latin for "sung Mass") is a Tridentine Mass "in which the liturgical parts are sung as in the High Mass, but which is ceremonially less elaborate" (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2000); "a Mass whose music is equivalent to that of the High Mass but that is less elaborate in its celebration. Also called sung Mass" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 1997); "Usually a Low Mass with the choir singing the Proper" (New Catholic Dictionary).