Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (Born in Palestrina (Praeneste) or Rome, 1525, latest February 1, 1526 – February 2, 1594 in Rome) was an Italian composer of Renaissance music. He was the most famous 16th century representative of the Roman School of musical composition.

Sources and further reading

• Article "Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da" in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. ISBN 1561591742
• Benjamin, Thomas, The Craft of Modal Counterpoint, 2nd ed. 2005 Routledge, New York. ISBN 0-415-97172-1 (direct approach)
• Coates, Henry, Palestrina. 1938. J. M. Dent & Sons, London. (An early entry in the Master Musicians series, and, like other books in that series, combines biographical data with musicological commentary.)
• Fux, Johann Joseph, The Study of Counterpoint (Gradus ad Parnassum). Tr. Alfred Mann. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1965. ISBN 0393002772
• Gauldin, Robert, A Practical Approach to Sixteenth-Century Counterpoint. 1995 Waveland Press, Inc., Long Grove, Illinois. ISBN 0-88133-852-4 (direct approach, no species; contains a large and detailed bibliography)
• Haigh, Andrew C. "Modal Harmony in the Music of Palestrina" in the festschrift Essays on Music: In Honor of Archibald Thompson Davison'. Harvard, 1957. pp.111-120.
• Jeppesen, Knud, The Style of Palestrina and the Dissonance. 2nd ed., London, 1946. (An exhaustive study of his contrapuntal technique.)
• Jeppesen, Knud; Haydon, Glen (Translator); Foreword by Mann, Alfred. Counterpoint. New York, 1939. Available through Dover Publications, 1992. ISBN 048627036X
• Morris, R.O., Contrapuntal Technique in the Sixteenth Century. 1978 Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-321468-7 (out of print :( ; one of the first attempts at "direct approach", meaning Morris does away with Fux' five species.)
• Motte, Diether de la, 'Kontrapunkt'. 1981 Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel. ISBN 3-423-30146-5 / 3-7618-4371-2 (this text is in German; great, though!)
• Pyne, Zoe Kendrick, Giovanni Pierluigi di Palestrina: His Life and Times, Bodley Head, London, 1922.
• Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954. ISBN 0393095304
• Roche, Jerome, Palestrina. 1970 Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-193-14117-5
• Stove, R. J., Prince of Music: Palestrina and His World, 1990 Quakers Hill Press, Sydney. ISBN 0-7316-8792-2 (biographical rather than musicological in nature; is wholly devoid of staff-notation extracts; but corrects some errors found in Z. K. Pyne and elsewhere).
• Swindale, Owen, Polyphonic Composition, 1962 Oxford University Press. Out of print, no ISBN available