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 .
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