How To Use Palestrina In A Sentence
- When the Council of Trent inveighed against polyphonic music for sacred purposes, although the target of their arrows was Palestrina, they might just as well have been speaking of Gombert.
- These lessons and the responsories have also been set in polyphony by innumerable musicians and composers; Palestrina, Victoria, and Charpentier are only three among the more outstanding composers who have written for this service. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 5 - Tenebrae and the Divine Office of the Triduum
- Adrian mused a moment; and the result of his revery was a determination to delay for another sun his departure to Palestrina -- to take advantage of the nature of the revel, and to join the masquerade. Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes
- It's a pity because, a few moments of unruliness apart, the performances of both the masses here are thoughtful and beautifully shaped, and neither the plainchant-based Missa de Beata Maria Virgine nor the parody mass Missa Surge Propera, based upon a Palestrina motet, has been recorded many times before. Victoria: Missa de Beata Maria Virgine; Missa Surge Propera etc – review
- These lessons and the responsories have also been set in polyphony by innumerable musicians and composers; Palestrina, Victoria, and Charpentier are only three among the more outstanding composers who have written for this service. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 5 - Tenebrae and the Divine Office of the Triduum
- Palestrina entitled one of his famous polyphone masses "Missa Papæ Marcelli" in his honour. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
- Ever since I was a boy, I've been fascinated by the great contrapuntists from Palestrina to Bach.
- In Mary's reign, England was exposed to the potent artistry of Flemish and Spanish music, while the seminal influence of Italy was always present in the shape of Palestrina's motets and the works of the Florentine madrigalists.
- Ronan Dunne began his musical training as a boy chorister with the Palestrina Choir at the Pro Cathedral, Dublin.
- He was the most gifted and most learned contrapuntist and composer before Palestrina and was the head of the Second The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
