The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 505
sires of the Catholic priesthood, which since the fifteenth centuryhad been fulminating against the impious and absurd medley of profanesongs and anthems. The Council of Trent was upon the point of excludingfrom the Church all music which was not plain chant, when Palestrina com-posed his first… … Fig. 370.—Facsimile of a Copper Engraving from the Ballet de la Royne, by Balthazar de Beaujoyeulx. (Paris, Mamert Patisson, 1582, quarto.) the Catholic Church, to which they gave a grave and solemn tone, in keepingwith the majesty of religious worship. At the end of the sixteenth century every…
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