PALESTRINA

Meaning of PALESTRINA in English

/pal'euh stree"neuh/ ; It. /pah'le strddee"nah/ , n.

1. Giovanni Pierluigi da /jaw vahn"nee pyerdd'looh ee"jee dah/ , 1526?-94, Italian composer.

2. Ancient, Praeneste . a town in central Italy, ESE of Rome.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

PALESTRINA — biographical name Giovanni Pierluigi da circa 1525-1594 Italian composer
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PALESTRINA — n. family name; Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594), Italian composer; ancient city in central Italy
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PALESTRINA — biographical name Giovanni Pierluigi da circa 1525-1594 Italian composer
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PALESTRINA — Palestrina BrE AmE ˌpæl ə ˈstriːn ə -ɪ-, -e- —Italian [ pa les ˈtɾiː na ]
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PALESTRINA — Палестрина
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PALESTRINA — n. Pronunciation: ˌ pa-l ə - ' str ē -n ə Function: biographical name Giovanni Pierluigi da ca 1525-1594 Ital. …
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PALESTRINA, GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA — born с 1525, Palestrina, near Rome died Feb. 2, 1594, Rome Italian composer. He sang in Rome as a choirboy, …
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GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA — n. (1525-1594) Italian composer
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PALESTRINA, GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA — born c. 1525, , Palestrina, near Rome died Feb. 2, 1594, Rome Italian Renaissance composer of more than 105 masses …
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PALESTRINA, GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA — born 0441; 1525, Palestrina, near Rome died Feb. 2, 1594, Rome Italian composer. He sang in Rome as a choirboy, …
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VICTORIA, TOMÁS LUIS DE — born с 1548, near Avila, Spain died Aug. 27, 1611, Madrid Spanish composer. He went to Rome с 1565 as …
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PRAENESTE — modern Palestrina Ancient city, Latium , central Italy. Praeneste was located on a spur of the Apennines . Founded before …
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GIOVANNI — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Giovanni Antonio Canal Giovanni da Bologna Tommaso Di Giovanni Di Simone Guidi Stefano di …
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DA — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Giorgio da Castelfranco viola da gamba Gabriel da Costa Antonello da Messina Jacopo da …
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PRAENESTE — /pree nes"tee/ , n. ancient name of Palestrina .
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POLYPHONY — in the broadest sense, music comprising two or more relatively autonomous voices or parts (compare monophony, music consisting of only …
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MUSICAL COMPOSITION — the act of conceiving a piece of music, the art of creating music, or the finished product. These meanings are …
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MOTET — (French mot: word), style of vocal composition that has undergone numerous transformations through many centuries. Typically, it is a Latin …
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MONOPHONY — musical texture made up of a single unaccompanied melodic line. It is a basic element of virtually all musical cultures. …
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MASS — the celebration of the Eucharist (q.v.) in the Roman Catholic church. The term mass is derived from the rite's Latin …
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LITURGICAL MUSIC — also called Church Music, music written for performance in a religious rite of worship; the term is most commonly associated …
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COUNTERPOINT — art of combining different melodic lines in a musical composition. It is the most characteristic element in Western music and …
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CHORAL MUSIC — music sung by a choir with two or more voices assigned to each part. Choral music is necessarily polyphonal-i.e., consisting …
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CANTUS FIRMUS — ( (Latin: fixed song), ) plural Cantus Firmi, preexistent melody, such as a plainchant excerpt, underlying a polyphonic musical composition …
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A CAPPELLA — (Italian: "in the church style"), performance of a polyphonic (multipart) musical work by unaccompanied voices. Originally referring to sacred choral …
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VICTORIA, TOMS LUIS DE
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TANEYEV, SERGEY — born Nov. 13 [Nov. 25, New Style], 1856, district of Vladimir, Russia died June 6 , 1915, Moscow in full …
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ROMANCE LANGUAGES — Figure 2: Distribution of Romance languages in Europe. group of related languages all derived from Vulgar Latin within historical times …
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GOMBERT, NICOLAS — born c. 1490, southern Flanders [now in Belgium] died c. 1556, Tournai, Flanders one of the leading Flemish composers of …
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COLONNA FAMILY — noble Roman family of great antiquity and importance, descended from the 10th-century counts of Tusculum. The first to take the …
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ANERIO, FELICE — born c. 1560, , Rome died Sept. 26/27, 1614, Rome one of the leading Roman composers of his time, who …
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PRAENESTE — modern Palestrina Ancient city, Latium , central Italy. Praeneste was located on a spur of the Apennines . Founded before …
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