'Palestrina’s masses run the gamut of styles from the consistently contrapuntal Missa ad fugam through the largely homophonic but texturally varied Missa Papae Marcelli designed for word-intelligibility (see Jeppesen’s statistical comparison of its Gloria and Credo sections with those of other masses 1923) to the antiphonal dialogue of the four polychoral masses.'From 'Grove Music Online'
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