A composer from this modern-day country wrote a polyphonic choral piece that sets every other line as a monophonic chant, despite being scored for one four-part chorus and one five-part chorus.
A composer from this modern-day country wrote a polyphonic choral piece that sets every other line as a monophonic chant, despite being scored for one four-part chorus and one five-part chorus. Another composer from this country wrote a polyphonic mass that nevertheless sets the Gloria and Credo largely in homophonic texture. That mass is scored for six voices, but ends with a seven-voice reprisal of the Agnus Dei. A composer from this country wrote a setting of the Miserere that was illegal to transcribe until a teenage Mozart did it from memory. It is said that a composer from this country saved polyphony by writing the Pope Marcellus Mass. For 10 points, name this country home to Gregorio Allegri and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.
A composer from this modern-day country wrote a polyphonic choral piece that sets every other line as a monophonic chant, despite being scored for one four-part chorus and one five-part chorus.
Italy [or Italia; or Italian Republic; or Repubblica Italiana]