The Style of Palestrina and the Dissonance (Dover Books on Music) by Knud Jeppesen
Dover Publications | March 24, 2005 | English | ISBN: 0486442683 | 336 pages | PDF | 11 MB
The greatest Renaissance creator of liturgical music, the revered sixteenth-century composer known as Palestrina wrote works that served for centuries as models of counterpoint. Until The Style of Palestrina and the Dissonance, theoreticians seldom closely analyzed the composer’s work to discover its fundamental elements, including the handling of rhythm, line, and harmony.