Hisworks are marked by a relegation of dissonances to weak beats, mostly stepwise melodic lines, and afocus on making the text easily intelligible, a style later composers called "prima prattica."
This composer's body of work was the basis for Johann Fux's treatise Gradus ad Parnassum. Hisworks are marked by a relegation of dissonances to weak beats, mostly stepwise melodic lines, and afocus on making the text easily intelligible, a style later composers called "prima prattica." Thismember of the Roman School wrote a five-voice motet cycle about the Song of Songs and a setting ofthe Improperia performed every Good Friday at the Sistine Chapel. This composer wrote onehundred and four (*) masses, including one which apocryphally convinced the Council of Trent not toban polyphonic church music. For 10 points, name this 16th-century Italian composer of the PopeMarcellus Mass.
This composer's body of work was the basis for Johann Fux's treatise Gradus ad Parnassum.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina