In this article formation and chronology of the Cyclic Mass are discussed : according to the present writer's terminology of a Cyclic Mass, the five sections of Ordinarium Missae are unified by the use of same Cantus Firmus and the Motto (Kopfmotiv). The writer tries to conclude that the Cyclic Mass-form can be one of the criteria of the Renaissance music, that the groping of the Cyclic Mass-form on the 14th century can be regarded as the "proto-Renaissance, " the end of the Medieval music, the formation of the form on the middle of the 15th century as the commencent of the Renaissance music, and the decline of the form on the middle of the 16th century as the fall of the Renaissance music and that the Masses after that period, including the works of Lassus, Palestrina and Victoria should be rather classified as the works of Manierism.

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