Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . pear to have been in advance of theirItalian and Netherland contemporaries intheir grasp of the principles of modula-tion. The attempts of Byrd and OrlandoGibbons to express the emotions of pity andterror by crude violations of the acceptedrules of harmony are among the first signsof a revolt against the laws which governedthe polyphonic school, while in the madri-gals of Wilbye we find a consummate easeof technic and a graceful flow of modula-tion such as are rare even in the mostaccomplished Italian writers of the period,and are certainly not to
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . pear to have been in advance of theirItalian and Netherland contemporaries intheir grasp of the principles of modula-tion. The attempts of Byrd and OrlandoGibbons to express the emotions of pity andterror by crude violations of the acceptedrules of harmony are among the first signsof a revolt against the laws which governedthe polyphonic school, while in the madri-gals of Wilbye we find a consummate easeof technic and a graceful flow of modula-tion such as are rare even in the mostaccomplished Italian writers of the period,and are certainly not to be found in theproductions of the Netherland school, atany rate before the days of Sweelinck. Butin spite of the beauty of the English madri-gals, it is in the sacred music of the Italianmasters that we find the most perfect utter-ance of the time, and of all the Italians themost gifted was Palestrina, whose namestands for all that is best and purest in themusic of the Church, in whose developmenthe played so striking and so formative
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