Talk:Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

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[edit] Carl Schachter

I'm not certain this text:

  • Schachter, Carl, Counterpoint in Composition: The Study of Voice Leading. Columbia University Press, 1990. ISBN 023107039X

is a representative text in connection with Palestrina. (see references section) I would say it's a desciption of 18th century cpt and later, rather than 16th, although in the final secion some relevant examples are discussed. In the treatment of the species however there are some major deviations from the 16th dentury style. I recommend deleting this title. MilesD3

Go ahead. I don't remember who put it there (I've never used that particular book; I mainly know the Fux and the Jeppesen). Antandrus (talk) 22:22, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It's a great book, worth studying, but it's more like a study of Schenkerian counterpoint. Not much of a historic account. MilesD3

[edit] Fux

Another problematic text is the "Gradus". Notwithstanding its historic significance, it has a great number of stylistic errors in it, and should therefore not be recommended as a reliable description of Palestrinian CPT. MilesD3 19:40, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Link from 'Palestrina'

Hi, I tried to search for Palestrina by simply entering 'Palestrina' in Wikipedia's search, but it only came up with the actual town in Italy. Does anyone know how to create a disambiguation page that can allow one to choose one from the other?FRM SYD 05:25, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

You're right that we should have such a page; actually it already does exist; at the top of the article for Palestrina (the town), there is a "disambiguation link" statement (in italics), that directs one to Palestrina (disambiguation). See Wikipedia:Disambiguation, the subsection on "Disambiguation pages/Page naming conventions/Primary topic" for a rationale of when to use this methodology (article on topic with "primary meaning" is the "main" article, linking to a disambiguation page with "(disambiguation)" qualifier in the title.) Cheers, Lini 11:43, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Date of birth

Someone seems to be very sure of his date of birth. Over 800 sites claim he was born in 1524, and about 1,000 claim he born in 1526. From among those that agree that the year is 1525, this site:

claims it was between 3rd February 1525 and 2nd February 1526, and these websites:

share that range. Would somebody like to justify the certainty over the date 4th March? Ogg 08:35, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Does anyone have the capability of adding a sample of Palestrina's work to this page? I think it would be useful and appropriate, but I don't know how to do it myself 71.62.27.199 (talk) 21:05, 21 April 2008 (UTC)Patrick Bentley