Privata Affärer
Privata may refer to: * Missa Privata, a mass said by a priest without music or incense * Musica privata, see Musica reservata * Vita privata, a 1962 French film directed by Louis Malle * the feminine singular or neuter plural form of the Latin word ''privatus In Roman law, the Latin adjective makes a legal distinction between that which is "private" and that which is , "public" in the sense of pertaining to the Roman people (). Used as a substantive, the term refers to a citizen who is not a p ...

Missa Privata
Low Mass (Latin ''Missa Privata'') is a Mass celebrated by a priest without the assistance of sacred ministers (deacon and subdeacon). Before the 1969 reforms, a sub-distinction was also made between the '' sung Mass'' (), when the celebrant still chants those parts which the rubrics require to be chanted, and the ''low Mass'' () where the liturgy is spoken. In a low Mass, the priest may be assisted by altar boys (acolytes) rather than deacons, and use appropriately simplified rubrics. A full sung Mass celebrated with the assistance of sacred ministers is a High or Solemn Mass. The celebration of Low Mass occurred in the Roman Rite, prior to the 1969 reforms in the Catholicism, and continues in Lutheranism, as well as parts of Anglicanism. History Low Mass originated in the early Middle Ages as a shortened or simplified form of Solemn Mass. In the early church, as in the Eastern Orthodox church today, all services were chanted, and there was no equivalent to the Roman Low Ma ...
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Musica Reservata
In music history, ''musica reservata'' (also ''musica secreta'') is either a style or a performance practice in ''a cappella'' vocal music of the latter half of the 16th century, mainly in Italy and southern Germany, involving refinement, exclusivity, and intense emotional expression of sung text. Definition The exact meaning, which appears in scattered contemporary sources, is a matter of debate among musicologists. While some of the sources are contradictory, four aspects seem clear: # ''musica reservata'' involved the use of chromatic progressions and voice-leading, a manner of composing which became fashionable in the 1550s, both in madrigals and motets; # it involved a style of performance, perhaps with extra ornamentation or other emotive methods; # it used word-painting, i.e. use of specific and recognizable musical figures to illuminate specific words in the text; and # the music was designed to be performed by, and appreciated by, small groups of connoisseurs. Compo ...
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Vita Privata
''A Very Private Affair'' () is a 1962 romantic drama film co-written and directed by Louis Malle and starring Brigitte Bardot and Marcello Mastroianni. Plot Jill is an 18-year-old French woman from an upper-class background who lives with her widowed mother in a luxurious villa on Lake Geneva and takes ballet lessons in Paris with her close friend Carla. Despite dating Dick, her ballet instructor, she is secretly infatuated with the older Fabio Rinaldi, an Italian magazine editor and theater director who is married to Carla. Dismayed by her unrequited love, Jill moves to Paris with Dick, despite her mother's protests, and pursues a career as a ballerina. However, she soon grows bored with Dick and ballet, and briefly turns to modeling to earn money. After being discovered by film producer Maxime, Jill begins acting in films. Within three years, she becomes a world-famous sex symbol, although she faces intense media scrutiny for her many love affairs and is constantly hounded by ...
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