The Holy Father offered his praise to polyphonic music while welcoming participants at the June 18 event commemorating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, a ...
The 17th century was the time of the highest flowering of choral musical culture in Russia and Ukraine. This century was also the richest in the variety of musical styles of liturgical music. In the ...
In Polyphonic Minds: Music of the Hemispheres (The MIT Press, 2017), Peter Pesic examines the shift in Western history from monophonic music — music with one melodic line — to polyphonic music, which ...