To: Sirius Lee
I don't know if I agree that things went downhill after Palestrina. Victoria (his pupil), Byrd, Sweelinck, Purcell, Monteverdi, Schutz, Bach - the whole Baroque period has some great stuff. And even the Classical period, despite its refocus on secular music, has some great church music and much of it is appropriate for Mass (how can we leave out Mozart?).
My personal opinion is that things started going downhill after 1805 - generally the big guns of the Romantic era do not produce appropriate music for Mass (there's still some good stuff - e.g. St-Saens' and Bruckner's choral work. But you have to pick and choose).
22 posted on
02/07/2013 9:02:33 AM PST by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: AnAmericanMother
Still, the Romantic, Schubert, while a bad Catholic, penned what is possibly the greatest sacred aria of them all in his Ave Maria. His Masses however are merely serviceable, but not on the level of Verdi or even Dvorak.
Strange that one of the greatest composers of Lieder would have such a hard time with Masses and opera.
27 posted on
02/07/2013 9:15:06 AM PST by
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
To: AnAmericanMother
Still, the Romantic, Schubert, while a bad Catholic, penned what is possibly the greatest sacred aria of them all in his Ave Maria. His Masses however are merely serviceable, but not on the level of Verdi or even Dvorak.
Strange that one of the greatest composers of Lieder would have such a hard time with Masses and opera.
28 posted on
02/07/2013 9:15:06 AM PST by
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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