palestrina

Classical music either refers to the whole tradition of Western serious art music (starting approximately with Palestrina and continuing to the current day) or it refers to the period after Baroque.

You could perform a fair bit of Palestrina and Victoria on this instrument.

All the standard texts for each style - and it doesn't matter which style you pick, from Palestrina to pop - are very incomplete guides that rely on human intelligence and creativity to fill in the gaps.

I remember being amazed at their performances of polyphonic music from the 16th Century, Palestrina and the like – my parents never played recordings of music like that at home and I had not heard it elsewhere.

The two chord punk rock song is definitely doing less and less sophisticated things than a Palestrina motet or even Steve Reich's studies in subtly changing simplicity and we lose something when we can't appreciate sophistication and intricacy (with or without being able to articulate the specifics).

I'm old enough to remember having to pay, individually, for a book containing each one of Bach's works, and now they're available for free online, along with all of Schubert, Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, Palestrina — I could not have imagined such a wealth of music when I was a young musician.

I doubt you'd describe his music as "drab." My parish runs the gamut from Palestrina to something from the 20th century at least every Sunday.

Counter-reformation composers like Palestrina were considered the most harmonically "perfect".

I've heard Palestrina's music in university classes, but I can't recall any of it at the moment.

Palestrina in in some ways closer to Schoenberg than Haydn.

(Sample: Palestrina) Polyphony is very pretty: it has around four melodies, each of equal importance.