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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Palestrina"”.
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Palestrina: His Time, His Life and His Music
To perform the music of Palestrina (and the music of other composers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) a conductor should understand the prevailing style of the music of Palestrina's time.
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The Spiritual Madrigals of Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina
… first two chapters include a brief biography of Palestrina and information about important personages in the history and use of the music being studied here. Chapter 1 also presents information about the historical context. Musical context for the composition and performance of these pieces is …
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Distant cathedrals
… measures of the Kyrie from Missa Primi Toni by Palestrina, Distant Cathedrals is a piece which connects the old with the new. The elegant voice-leading and careful regulation of dissonance in Palestrina’s panconsonant music is emblematic of late Renaissance polyphony. Given Palestrina’s position …
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"A Study of Parody Settings Based on a French Chanson ""Je Suis Desheritee"
… Masses (by Maillard, Guyon, De Marle, Gombert, Palestrina, and Lasso) are analyzed (and in some cases transcribed) to identify organizational and compositional similarities. The dissertation also attempts to determine the particular source used for each of these derivative compositions.
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Musical Ambiguity in Analysis and Composition: Problems of Pattern, Value, Form, and Structure
… of parametric polyphony in examples by Palestrina, Debussy, Schoenberg, Webern, and Berio. Chapter Four includes a critique of the roles played by musical ambiguity in the music theories of Schenker, Meyer, and Narmour and offers an alternative analysis of Haydn's Sonata no. 39 which …
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Historicist Composition for the Catholic Church: France and Belgium, 1894–1937
… of choral polyphony independent of the academic “Palestrina style”. Chapter 3 pieces together how new conceptions of “modality” emerged out of older ones of *tonalité ancienne*. Both developments afforded new ways of claiming a creative affiliation with old music. The conclusion considers the …