Rachel Lauren presents her biography of the Italian composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594). The composer wrote masses, motets, madrigals, and other sacred works. Palestrina worked as an organist and choirmaster for various churches throughout Italy, including the position created for Palestrina, Composer of the Papal Chapel, which he gained in 1571.

First Published in 2002. This guide introduces students and scholars to the literature on Palestrina as well as the complicated history of the publication of his works. This bibliography is divided into four primary sections: historical background on musical, social, and cultural life; biographical literature; studies of sources, music, and style; and reception history. They are divided roughly into the periods dating from Palestrina's lifetime to about 1750; from about 1750 to about 1914; from 1914 to the present. This title also contains historical research on performance conditions and practices as they would have applied in Palestrina's time.

Steven G. Estrella offers information about the works of the Italian composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594). The information is provided as part of Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers. Palestrina composed sacred music, motets, madrigals, and other vocal works. A list of Palestrina's major works and a bibliography on the composer are available. Links to other related Web sites are offered.

Explore the "Italian Renaissance" through the lens of political science in this insightful book. Uncover how this era sparked significant political changes, laying the groundwork for modern governance. Ideal for professionals, students, and enthusiasts, it provides in-depth knowledge of one of history's most influential periods. Chapters Overview: 1. Italian Renaissance: A cultural and political rebirth that reshaped European thought. 2. Florence: The political heart of the Renaissance, led by the influential Medici family. 3. Renaissance: The cultural and political impact across Italy. 4. Renaissance Architecture: How architecture mirrored political power. 5. Giorgio Vasari: His role in documenting the Renaissance's political aspects. 6. Cosimo de' Medici: His strategies shaped Florentine politics. 7. Republic of Florence: The dynamics of Florence as a Renaissance republic. 8. Renaissance Art: Art as a political tool reflecting rulership and humanism. 9. Florence Baptistery: The political symbolism in Florence's architecture. 10. Italian Art: The evolution of art as political propaganda. 11. History of Florence: Florence's political history, from republicanism to Medici rule. 12. Music of Florence: Music's political role in civic life. 13. John Argyropoulos: Byzantium's influence on Renaissance humanism. 14. Museo Nazionale di San Marco: The museum's preservation of Renaissance political legacy. 15. Florentine Painting: Depictions of political power in art. 16. Italian Renaissance Painting: Trends reflecting political patronage. 17. Tuscany: Tuscany's influence as a political and cultural hub. 18. Italophilia: European admiration for Italian culture and its political impact. 19. Renaissance Articles Index: A detailed index for deeper exploration. 20. Italo-Byzantine: Byzantine influences on Renaissance art and politics. 21. Renaissance Sculpture: Sculpture as a medium for political expression. Immerse yourself in the political and cultural innovations of the Italian Renaissance, from Florence's power corridors to Rome's intellectual salons. This book offers a compelling journey through one of history's defining eras.

The complete four-volume set includes major essays and relevant discussions of the musical forms in The Hymnal 1982 which cover such topics as popular religious song, cultural diversity, the relationship between The Hymnal 1982 and the liturgies of The Book of Common Prayer, the development of service music in the Episcopal Church, hymn forms, and a brief history of Christian hymnody in the United States and Britain. In addition, complete information is given on all hymns and service music which includes the sources of text and music as well as biographical and technical facts. (2,949 pp)

Gateways to Understanding Music, Second Edition, explores music in all the categories that constitute contemporary musical experience: European classical, popular, jazz, and world music. Covering the oldest forms of human music making to the newest, this chronology presents music from a global rather than a Eurocentric perspective. Each of 60 "gateways" addresses a particular genre, style, or period of music. Every gateway opens with a guided listening example that unlocks a world of music through careful study of its structural elements. How did the piece come to be composed or performed? How did it respond to the social and cultural issues at the time, and what does that music mean today? Students learn to listen to, explain, understand, and ultimately value all the music they encounter in their world. New to this edition is a broader selection of musical examples that reflect the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion advocated by North American universities. Eight gateways have been replaced. A timeline of gateways helps students see the book’s historical narrative at a glance. Features Values orientation—Diverse, equitable, and inclusive approach to music history. All genres of music—Presents all music as worthy of study, including classical, world, popular, and jazz. Global scope within a historical narrative—Begins with small-scale forager societies up to the present, with a shifting focus from global to European to American influences. Recurring themes — Aesthetics, emotion, social life, links to culture, politics, economics, and technology. Modular framework—60 gateways—each with a listening example—allow flexibility to organize chronologically or by the seven themes. Consistent structure—With the same step-by-step format, students learn through repeated practice how to listen and how to think about music. Anthology of scores—For those courses that use the textbook in a music history sequence. Gateways to Understanding Music continues to employ a website to host the audio examples and instructor’s resources.

This rare publication continues an exploratory journey in relational biology, a study of biology in terms of the organization of networked connections in living systems. It builds on the author’s two earlier monographs which looked at the epistemology of life and the ontogeny of life. Here the emphasis is on the intangibility of life, that the real nature of living systems is conveyed not by their tangible material basis but by their intangible inherent processes. Relational biology is the approach that hails ‘function dictates structure’; it is mathematics decoded into biological realizations. Therefore, the work begins with a concise introduction to category theory, equiping the reader with the mathematical metalanguage of relation biology. The book is organized around three parts: Part I is a comprehensive study of the most important functor in relational biology, the power set functor. The author lays the set-theoretic foundations of the functorial connections in relational biology, exploring relations, mappings, and set-valued mappings. In Part II, Natural Law receives a new mathematical formulation founded on two axioms: ‘Everything is a set.’ and ‘Every process is a set-valued mapping.’ The reader sees how Metabolism–Repair networks, equipped with set-valued processors, expand their role from models of biological entities to generic models of all natural systems. Part III expounds the various shades of invertibility in general, and the inversion of encoding to decoding in particular. A plethora of mathematical and biological examples illustrate the category-theoretic concepts of equivalence and adjunction. This book's algebraic approach to biological models will appeal to researchers and graduate students in mathematics, biology, and the philosophy of science.