The Cultural Influence of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Humanities 1301 Sec. 9467 November 30, 2003
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina C. 1525 - 1594
If you have Internet Explorer running, you should be able to hear the music playing. The excerpt you are listening to is from the movement called Kyrie in Palestrina's Missa Brevis mass, one of the 104 he wrote over his lifetime. His other works include over 250 motets, 450 or so liturgical pieces, 50 spiritual madrigals, and approximately 100 secular madrigals. Each page following this will have a different exceprt playing from some of the other masses and other liturgical pieces including Missa O Sacrum Convivium and his most notable Mass, Missa Papae Marcelli. It is recommended that you use a High Speed connection and maximized windows to view this site. Please allow extra time for the pages to load if you have dial-up. Enjoy!
