"Palestrina composed the 'Pope Marcellus Mass' and presented it before the council was concluded. It has six voice parts, so you can understand the words but still have polyphonic music." ...

Palestrina's 'Pope Marcellus' Mass was one of the first examples of a new, more structured and direct style, making the text clearly audible, ...

"Palestrina," Greenberg says, "is credited for rescuing church music by writing a special six-part polyphonic mass, six independent vocal parts, and titled it the Pope Marcellus Mass.

Pope Leo XIV held up the Mass of Pope Marcellus as an example of excellence “as well as the precious repertoire of compositions bequeathed to us by the unforgettable Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci ...

Since forming a decade ago, New York Polyphony has become an admired addition to the international early music scene-and a regular on Miller's series.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch charts a path to Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli, which reputedly saved polyphonic music from being banned by the Catholic Church in the 1560s. To listen to this programme ...

In the frescoed Sala Regia of the Apostolic Palace June 18, the pope helped celebrate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, a composer whose Mass settings are still a ...

Palestrina's 'Pope Marcellus' Mass was one of the first examples of a new, more structured and direct style, making the text clearly audible, ...