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The Violin and its Music, 1881
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1music," and he adhered to the use of the organ and other instruments in the service; which not only effectually checked the retrograde steps at Rome in relation to music, but largely influenced the opening up of a new school of Italian musical art.
3As before remarked, the records of the Pontifical Chapel were lost at the burning of the city; leaving us therefore in ignorance of much concerning the music of the Papal States at this period. Certain it is, however, that Goudimel, in opening the music school at Rome, about the middle of the sixteenth century, was making ready the cradle for the reception of the wreck of Ecclesiastical Music, launched and manned by Netherlanders in a past age. Right well did he perform his task! When the wreck was cradled, it fell to the genius of the immortal Palestrina to modify its original design in accordance with the spirit of the times.
5About the period of the Venetian transformation of the Fiddle into the Violin, Palestrina was pursuing his studies in the school of Goudimel, and teaching the choir boys of St. Peter's. Among the fellow-students of Palestrina were Nanini, and Alessandro Romano, surnamed Alessandro della Viola from his great skill upon that instrument. Later he became a member of a monastic order, choosing the martial name of Julius Caesar—surely that of Nero would have been a better selection, since he was both martial and musical, and it is even said played the Fiddle, a statement I am unable to
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