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- and composer of operas, sonatas, and sacred and secular vocal compositions ... late seventeenth century, including opera, sacred vocal music and several varieties ...4 KB (564 words) - 14:08, 22 May 2024
- music to bring out his interest in sacred music. Graun felt that ethical ... biography and thematic catalog, The sacred Choral Music of the Graun ...2 KB (357 words) - 19:19, 26 November 2023
- Even though the emphasis was on the sacred music of the Venetian School ... Hassler's sacred music is both for the Roman Catholic church ...4 KB (660 words) - 01:17, 19 January 2024
- In music, a cantus firmus ("fixed song") is a pre-existing ... the thirteenth century. Almost all of the music of the St. Martial and Notre ...7 KB (1,066 words) - 19:51, 9 April 2025
- 15, 1609) was an Italian composer of vocal music who lived during the late ... in Italy and abroad. As a composer of sacred music he was mostly conservative ...6 KB (867 words) - 14:07, 22 May 2024
- most famous pupil of Heinrich Isaac, was music director to the court of ... His sacred music includes masses, motets, vespers settings, and a ...6 KB (899 words) - 21:08, 18 March 2025
- chant. Chant may be considered speech, music, or a heightened or stylized ... When performing a chant, the singer usually uses music and sacred ...5 KB (821 words) - 01:44, 4 December 2023
- an Italian composer of the middle Baroque music period. He was born in Rome ... moved to Rome where he composed mostly sacred music; however, he appeared ...5 KB (728 words) - 16:57, 12 December 2025
- In music, polyphony is a texture consisting of two or more independent ... Church officially sanctioned polyphony in sacred music. ...7 KB (1,087 words) - 08:47, 24 November 2022
- His many sacred madrigals, secular vocal compositions, and instrumental ... defined the beginning of the Baroque era in music. His duties at St ...6 KB (961 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- composers. Most of his music, even his sacred music, is simple and clear in ... It is thought that considerably more of his sacred music survives ...7 KB (989 words) - 18:56, 3 April 2025
- In music history, the Roman School was a group of composers of predominantly ... The Council of Trent recommended that sacred music, especially for use in ...8 KB (1,148 words) - 14:02, 23 October 2025
- in the early eighteenth century. His sacred music, chamber compositions ... ===Sacred music=== Francois Couperin's sacred music represents ...10 KB (1,509 words) - 04:57, 9 April 2024
- beautifully. Martini's proportioned sacred melodies remind listeners ... == Music and influence == Martini wrote masses, motets, psalms, hymns ...6 KB (850 words) - 03:19, 30 January 2025
- or, more accurately, the Roman School of music. An ordained priest of the ... was about to usurp the dominance of sacred music in Italy; the change was ...7 KB (995 words) - 18:53, 21 May 2024
- of the shift from Renaissance to Baroque idioms in music. canzonas, fugues, sonatas, and instrumental music to rouse personal and spiritual ...8 KB (1,195 words) - 14:08, 22 May 2024
- important composers of keyboad instrumental music in the late Renaissance and ... was in Ferrara at the time. Gesualdo's music, which contained quick modifications ...5 KB (689 words) - 14:26, 22 May 2024
- periods. As a renowned creator of sacred music, Michael Haydn concentrated ... of Rohrau. Neither parent could read music. However, Matthias was an ...7 KB (1,073 words) - 08:06, 31 May 2025
- ===Comedies and sacred music=== of comedies as well, to say nothing of sacred music composed to imperial order ...8 KB (1,217 words) - 03:57, 1 May 2023
- smallpox), Landini became devoted to music early in life, and mastered ... are records of his having composed sacred music, none of it has survived ...6 KB (949 words) - 04:47, 9 April 2024
