The High Renaissance - Palestrina Versus Lassus
We finish talking about the Counter Reformation and how polyphony was saved from being banned in churches.
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Introduction (0:00)
Aftermath of the Council of Trent (0:55)
An Introduction to Palestrina (2:26)
Palestrina's Legacy (3:30)
Pope Marcellus Mass (4:11)
How Palestrina got away with writing polyphony (6:51)
An Introduction to Lassus (7:54)
Spiritual Madrigals (9:05)
Lagrime di San Pietro (10:23)
Closing Thoughts (12:42)
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I named my first daughter Giovanna after Palestrina. To me, the greatest of his time. Great video!
@tcholope
Жыл бұрын
😁
I LOVE that you give so much time to the music. Not only are we able to hear it in excerpt but the visuals add to the appreciation. Also, if you had been my professor in college perhaps the knowledge I did gain would not have left me as quickly.
@KeepitClassical
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I know when I was first getting into classical music that having a visual aid really helped me understand it better (even if I was still learning to read music). I wish I could take more time with each of the pieces!
Wowwowow!! Fabulous video!! Thank you!!🌺
So useful for our music students, I'll use it in my courses ! Thanks a million!
When we sang Palestrina's Aeterna Christi munera, I knew I was hooked. When we sang Lassus's In monte Oliveti, I got hooked a second time. Reverent, worshipful music works on me like a drug, like endorphins.
Thanks for posting, I've always used Palestrina and Lassus in our church music because it adds the depth of the prayers and the liturgy itself.
@lloydbowers8997
4 ай бұрын
Please tell me where your church is.
Great video! Learnt a lot!!
Awesome work.
could you do a video on just intonation and how playing classical works in their historic tunings changes the sound of the music? I once met someone who had a historically tuned piano, and when they played a piece by Palestrina it completely changed my perception of his works, and I'd love to learn more about it!
If any two composers are equals in greatness, it would be Lassus and Palestrina. For me, Palestrina's music is among the most transcendent ever written. How much of does one attribute to talent and how much to inspiration? On one hand, music is a form of "design," in that one must learn the techniques of composition, which during the 16th century were incredibly strict and exacting. On the other hand, some music has a quality of the sublime that can't be analyzed. My list of the greatest composers of ecclesiastical music of this era would include Tallis, Victoria, and Clemens non Papa in addition to Palestrina and Lassus.
9:50 Petrarch is NOT the author of Le Lagrime di San Pietro. The poems were written by Luigi Tansillo (1510-1568). Lassus set to music 20 Madrigali spirituali, not 21; the last one being a motet
8:30 One pronounces the "s" in the word (town) "Mons" (but not in the word - racing city - "Le Mans"). Confusing, I know - don't blame me, I'm just the messenger. BTW, De Lassus also likely spoke Flemish.
@KeepitClassical
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, I had no idea about Mons!
i prefer Victoria, supose because i am spanish, but the abulensis has always moved me more
Love Palestrina.
God, you can't imagine the sigh of relief when you denounced that silly myth of Palestrina saving counterpunctal music. It's still so widely believed, unfortunately. Palestrina's music is amazing enough without lazy pseudo-historical sensationalism. Well-done video overall!
@herrickinman9303
9 ай бұрын
_Contrapuntal_ music. Not "contrapunctal music."
@maniak1768
9 ай бұрын
@herrickinman9303 Oh look, the orthography police sees everything. My own mother tongue uses a k-sound in this adjective, as the Latin ethymology indicates. Please forgive a non-native speaker his ignorance of the fact that your language has made its very own creative twist on the Latin word, being translated into French, made into an adjective and then being translated once more into English.
@herrickinman9303
9 ай бұрын
@@maniak1768 Now that you know the correct spelling is _contrapuntal,_ you're little less ignorant.
I don't have a dog in this fight, but I think I know why Renaissance music died out. It needed more cowbell.
@KeepitClassical
Жыл бұрын
Not entirely without merit lol
I love this video/these videos! I am a teacher of the history of art, and I'm wondering if you could help me with a simple exercise. In the world of art history, the art of the late 1500's and then 1600s, during the Counter-Reformation Baroque, we note that Catholic art changed in ways that made it more dramatic, in order to make the Catholic faith a more "energizing" thing. I thought that the Church had also sought to make the music of that time "more energizing" and dramatic. Might you be able to point me to two "quick" excerpts that might clearly show the "before and after" of these changes?
Thanks What about Henry purcell
cool video, thank you! One thought: Homophonic I would call Polyhonic but homorhythmical...
_Missae_ is the plural of _missa._ "Missae papae marcelli" means "masses of Pope Marcellus." Surely, you meant "MIssa Papae Marcelli."
5:37
@TalesGomesG
Жыл бұрын
Papae Marcelli is a masterpiece
John Peter Lewis LOLOLOL I can't wait to use it in the wild.
Lots of good insights. The gratuitous attempts at cutesy wit generally miss and undermine your presentation.
Sadly, I can't enjoy Renaissance music as much as I enjoy Baroque music, it's just too much for me, it's like a really fancy glass of wine that I can't enjoy because it's way more fancy to what I'm used to. I hope that the more I listen to it, the more I open myself to it, it's quality is undenyalbe, God Bless you.
@riverstun
3 ай бұрын
I love Bach, but he loved Palestrina. Suggest if you havent, that you listen to Missa Papae Marcelli. This work, Drains all stress from me from the very first notes. There are some other gems out there, Spem in Alium, Miserere, Parci Mihi.that are immediately accessible also.
De Kerle wasn't Dutch, and what's with all the cut edits?
@KeepitClassical
2 жыл бұрын
Allen Atlas describes him as a "Netherlander" on page 581 🤷🏼♂️ Probably could have been more careful with my description of him.
@mmneander1316
Жыл бұрын
He's not Dutch in the modern sense of the term "Dutch". He is from the Low Countries (in the historical sense of the term "Low Countries").
Palestrina is the best.
the subtitle cc are amusing . in 4:13 , "anus day" 😅
You are mispronouncing "epochs." If you're going to make videos, make sure you are literate.