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Definition of Palestrina
1. Noun. Italian composer (1526-1594).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palestrina
Literary usage of Palestrina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"Palestrina seems to have been at Rome from 1540 to 1544, ... On the ijth of
January 1555, Palestrina was enrolled, by command of Pope Julius III., ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Consult Cametti, 'Cenni Biografici di Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina' ...
Palestrina, Italy, a town in the province of and 23 miles east-southeast of Rome ..."
3. Journal by Royal Institution of Great Britain (1891)
"Tuesday, April 4th — The subscribers visited Palestrina under the guidance of PROF.
COMM. LANCIANI. The members of the party travelled by the new railway ..."
4. The Oxford History of Music by William Henry Hadow (1905)
"But our view of the work of Palestrina is not necessarily limited to that aspect
in which it is seen as the consummation of the polyphonic art, ..."
5. Story-lives of Master Musicians by Harriette Moore Brower (1922)
"Four hundred years ago Palestrina was dominated by the great castle of its ...
At that time there lived in Palestrina a peasant pair, Sante Pierluigi and ..."
6. Days Near Rome by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1875)
"CHAPTER XVII. Palestrina. (Palestrina is about 27 miles from Rome by way of Zagarolo.
Public carriages leave the Piazza S. Marco ..."
7. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"In 1547 Palestrina was a young student in Rome; in 1658 Purcell was born in
London; in 1685, within a few days and a few miles of each other, ..."
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