what necessity can there be for taking the Kyrie from one work and the Gloria from another, the Sanctus from a third and the Agnus from a fourth, instead of executing one Mass in its entirety and thus presenting an ensemble of uniform style?

Ah ! if His Holiness had confined himself to demanding some indispensable reforms, such as the exclusion of all secular music "adapted" for the Church, he would have been obeyed, and the benefit would have been great. But he in no wise cared to take into account inveterate secular habits, or the attraction with which music endows the ceremonies of the cult. We should have had to limit ourselves to Gregorian chant, banish the solos, interdict every instrument except the organ, and reduce the latter to accompaniments and a few short ritournelles. That was asking too much of human frailty, and the mighty voice was lost in space.