How To Use Palestrina In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Palestrina entitled one of his famous polyphone masses "Missa Papæ Marcelli" in his honour.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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Ever since I was a boy, I've been fascinated by the great contrapuntists from Palestrina to Bach.
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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.
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Ronan Dunne began his musical training as a boy chorister with the Palestrina Choir at the Pro Cathedral, Dublin.
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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
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Besides these three sources measurably unprofessional and outside of music, or amateur, as we say now, there was the work of the professional musicians strictly so-called, who, from about 1100 in the old French school, commenced the development of what is now known as polyphony, which culminated in the hands of the Netherlanders, about 1580, Palestrina himself being one of the latest products of this school.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
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Palestrina's work is short, punchy and highly effective.
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‘Palestrina for a penny’ was his motto, referring to the carfare from the Royal College of Music to Westminster.
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The mass setting is Palestrina's Missa Tu es Petrus, and the offertory motet is an 8-part Venetian setting of Iubilate Deo by Giovanni Gabrieli.
Update on Some Liturgical Details for the Installation of Archbishop Vincent Nichols
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The Nov. 7 program by Peter Phillips and Tallis Scholars alternated between sacred music of the Renaissance (Palestrina, Byrd, Tallis, Praetorius and Allegri) and of today (Arvo P ä rt).
The White Light Spectrum
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One tone, one chord, a single movement, three, four notes in melodic succession, are in their musical apperception the substratum of such unutterable and intense musical emotion that it becomes practically impossible in these sound-areas to make music freely and completely in the manner of Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, or Palestrina.
Banishing silence
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It has attracted numerous polyphonic settings, by such composers as Victoria, Palestrina, and Mozart.
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After the seventh century, the Bishop of Palestrina was one of the hebdomadary prelates for the services of the Lateran basilica, and was, therefore, a cardinal; he is the fourth, in order, of the cardinal-bishops.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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The chant pilgrimage at the National Shrine concluded with a Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary, extraordinary form, with Gregorian ordinary and propers, including organ by David Lang and the Shrine choir directed by Peter Latona singing Palestrina and Byrd.
Chant Pilgrimage report
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Domine Iesu Christe in qua nocte - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 – 1594)
Tenebrae and Holy Thursday, St. John Cantius
