This composer wrote onehundred and four (*) masses, including one which apocryphally convinced the Council of Trent not toban polyphonic church music.
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