Saturday, April 8, 2006

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The culmination of sacred polyphony

In areas of Europe that were influenced by the religious reforms, sacred polyphony touched the artistic higher. The meeting between the Flemish counterpoint and melodic taste nascent had led to a new European-style polyphonic . The simplification of vocal counterpoint was embodied in a cappella style , that is for only items that led to the purification of expression that is the peculiar character of this artistic civilization. A cappella style developed in Italian cathedrals (except Venice), and touched the top art with composers such as Orlando di Lasso, Palestrina, Byrd and Luis da Victoria.

-THE ROMAN SCHOOL : S econd half of the fifteenth century the popes took care and improved continuously choirs of the Roman basilicas. This led the school to have a polyphonic Roman primacy in sacred music of the Renaissance . The oldest Roman Chapel Sistine was ordered by Pope Sixtus IV, followed by the Cappella Giulia, the Liberian Chapel, Chapel Pia. The most successful musicians of the Roman School were: Palestrina, Costanzo Festa (1480 ca.-1545), little soul John (1514-1571), Giovanni Maria Nanino (1544-1607) and Felice Anerio (1560 ca.-1614). The Roman school of polyphony continued its activity in the first part of the seventeenth century , distinguished by a taste of polychorality Baroque, of which the best known exponent is Orazio Benevolent .