A comparison of Palestrina and Rameau

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Music and Movies

 

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Donna G

 

Date added:

August 21, 2014

 

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University

 

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A

 

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4 / 1092

 

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He was one of the greatest figures in French musical history, a theorist of European stature and France's leading 18th century composer. He made important contributions to the cantata, the motet, keyboard music, and many of his dramatic compositions stand alongside those of Lully and Gluck as the pinnacles of pre-revolutionary French opera...
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It is an undisputed fact that this Mass, printed in the second collection of Palestrina's Masses in 1567, was composed in light of the desire to reform church music at that time. Its clarity of words and expressiveness, its stylistic unity of themes and construction, with melodies related to Gregorian chant, demonstrate a manner of working different from that of the old Flemish composers...
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