In a piece in this genre, Herbert Howells commemorated both the loss of his son and the death of President Kennedy.
In a piece in this genre, Herbert Howells commemorated both the loss of his son and the death of President Kennedy. One of Orlando di Lasso's pieces in this genre begins with the singers stuttering the open lines, in mockery of inept performers. Allegri's Miserere and a Mozart piece in this genre are the two pieces transcribed in Liszt's A la Chapelle Sixtine. Henri Dumontestablished the tradition at the Chapelle royale of composing the "grand" style of this genre, whose Anglican equivalent is the anthem. An isorhythmic piece in this genre, written for the consecration of the dome of the Florence Cathedral, is Guillaume Dufaye's "Nuper Rosarum Flores." The Cantiones sacrae is a collection of these pieces by William Byrd and Thomas Tallis, and one of the last major ones is Mozart's "Ave verum corpus." For 10 points, name these polyphonic settings of religious texts, the sacred equivalent of the madrigal.
In a piece in this genre, Herbert Howells commemorated both the loss of his son and the death of President Kennedy.
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