Giovanni Pier Luigi, called Palestrina from his birthplace in one of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference

As well, a permanent criterion is also the great polyphony of Catholic renaissance, which finds its highest expression in Palestrina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Msgr. Guido Marini Speaks Again on the Liturgy, Its Forms and Its Importance] Reference

Mosaic pictures, as a rule, are not large; but one found at Palestrina, which is called the Nile mosaic, is six by five metres inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture] Reference

"Palestrina;" others which portray aged ecclesiastics of the Roman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians] Reference

Other composers, such as Palestrina and Marenzio, were invited by writing to lend their cooperation too to this project.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

A hymn by Palestrina had succeeded the Bach prelude.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

If we also do the Palestrina, we can go back even further.    From Wordnik.com.  [Donna Schaper: Easter Maybe on April 12th?] Reference

The one was Palestrina, an Italian; the other was Bach, a German.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music Talks with Children] Reference

Palestrina, and still sung in the papal chapel, Baini reckons the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome] Reference

Your music, though, it's like Bulgarian folk chant or Palestrina.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Call to Arms]

He received the bishopric of Albano and afterwards that of Palestrina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

‘The princess of Palestrina, your mother!’ cried he, bursting into.    From Wordnik.com.  [Candide] Reference

Visit npr. org/music to hear more from Copland, Beethoven and Palestrina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Financing the Classics: Beethoven's Benefactor] Reference

In music Tomás Luis de Vittoria was a worthy contemporary of Palestrina.    From Wordnik.com.  [1640-59] Reference

The underlying harmonies are, for Palestrina, unusually simple and modal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

Poor Palestrina went along many years through life with the scantiest means.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music Talks with Children] Reference

He was succeeded by Palestrina, who had been his friend and probably his pupil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference

Porto d'Anzio and Palestrina, quantities of antiquities were being brought to the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference

The second show of the tour was in Palestrina, Italy, at the Nel Nome Del Rock Festival.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Sachs: Life After Death: The Legacy of Mark Sandman and Morphine] Reference

He did with polyphony for the piano and organ much the same as Palestrina did for the voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music Talks with Children] Reference

Melody taken from the Gloria of the Magnificat terii toni by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.    From Wordnik.com.  [The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book] Reference

Palestrina died in 1594, and lies buried in St. Peter's, where his works are still performed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians] Reference

This, Hegel contends, is the secret of truly “ideal” music, the music of Palestrina, Gluck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hegel's Aesthetics] Reference

(Soundbite of music) HANSEN: At one point in the church's history did Palestrina become popular?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Composing for the Pope: A Church Music Primer] Reference

Mr. GREENBERG: Well, the other was Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, born around 1525; died in 1594.    From Wordnik.com.  [Composing for the Pope: A Church Music Primer] Reference

"The centuries have no power over the Palestrina style," says its historian; "it can neither fade nor die.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference

Some twenty miles from Rome, the insignificant but picturesquely situated town of Palestrina, lies on the hillside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians] Reference

Although highly honoured and rewarded with many offices, Palestrina received no great pecuniary recompense for his labours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians] Reference

Palestrina, a little way off on the hillside, with a flowing skirt of vines all about it, breathes laughter in its very air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference

Twenty famous musicians are very interestingly characterized; among them Palestrina, Mozart, Rossini, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, and Wagner.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mother's List of Books for Children] Reference

Paul IV., who succeeded Marcellus, was a reformer, and dismissed Palestrina from the choir, which was a severe blow to the poor composer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians] Reference

Maria and her husband Marquis Luigi Sacchetti, who received the title of prince of Palestrina and permission to bear the name of Barberini.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference