Sacred Music of Italy
Italy being one of the Catholicism’s seminal nations, has a long record of music for the Roman Catholic Church, until approximately 1800, ...
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Italy
being one of the Catholicism’s seminal nations, has a long record of music for
the Roman Catholic Church, until approximately 1800, this was possibly to hear
Gregorian Chant and Renaissance polyphony like the music of the Palestrina,
Lassus, Anerio and others.
source of picture: www.ratemystudyabroad.com
Approximately
1800 to approximately 1900 was a century that a more famous operatic and
entertaining type of church music was heard, to the exclusion of the said chant
and polyphony. In the 19th century, the Cecilian movement was begun
by artists who fought to restore this music. This trend gained motivation not
in Italy but in German, particularly in Regensburg, the trend reached its apex
around 1900 with the ascent of Don Lorenzo Perosi and his audience (and future
saint), Pop Pius X. the advent of Vatican II, though, nearly demolished all Latin
language music from the church, once again substituting it with a more famous
pattern.
