Palestrina
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Italian composer (1526-1594)
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According to Fux, Palestrina had established and followed these basic guidelines: * The flow of music is dynamic, not rigid or static.
A few further rules given by Fux, by study of the Palestrina style, and usually given in the works of later counterpoint pedagogues, are as follows.
As was usual, Palestrina was buried on the same day he died, in a plain coffin with a lead plate on which was inscribed Libera me Domine.
By the end of 1298 Landolfo had captured Colonna, Palestrina and other towns and razed them to the ground after it surrendered peacefully under Boniface's assurances that it would be spared.
ISBN 0-415-97172-1 (direct approach) * Coates, Henry, Palestrina.
However, his work for the Sistine Chapel is descended from the Palestrina style, and in some cases strips even this refined, simple style of all ornament.