Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1 gen 1525 anni – 1 gen 1594 anni)

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an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He had a long-lasting influence on the development of church and secular music in Europe, especially on the development of counterpoint, and his work is considered as the culmination of Renaissance polyphony.

Palestrina was essentially the musical spokesperson of the Catholic
Church during the tumultuous years following the Protestant Reformation.
a. He was the composer for eleven popes, from 1550 until his
death.
b. Palestrina composed many Masses (at least 104)

Palestrina sought to provide an ideal medium for the text. His pursuit of perfection in so many Masses resulted in a certain
facility.

Continuing the Tradition
1. Most of Palestrina’s Mass settings are based on pre-existing material.
a. Among his choices was the L’Homme arme.
b. More than thirty Masses are paraphrase Masses.

Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli and the Bishops
1. During the mid-sixteenth-century, some Catholic church leaders noted difficulty in understanding the text in polyphonic music. This is especially an issue related to the Council of Trent (held from 1545-1563).
a. In response, Palestrina composed the Missa Papae Marcelli in c. 1562

“Stairway to Parnassus”
1. Over time, Palestrina’s compositional style came to be seen as the
prototype for “correct” writing.
2. In the eighteenth century, Johann Joseph Fux wrote a treatise in which
he devised rules for counterpoint based on Palestrina’s music.

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