Donald Francis Tovey

“ When such masses are performed, whether in a concert-room or church, it is indisputable that the motet ought always to be included. Sometimes one composer founded a mass on another composer’s motet; thus Soriano’s fine Missa, Nos autem gloriari, is based upon a motet by Palestrina. When a motet was in two movements the second movement almost always ended with the last clauses of the first, both in text and in music, thereby sometimes producing a distinctly modern impression of da capo form. ”

“ Dies sanctificatus; Veni sponsa Christi, and the second Missa Tu es Petrus, are magnificent examples selected almost at random from the masses which the composer has founded on his own motets of the same name. ”