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The violin and its music, 1881
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1flourished in Rome and Venice accounts for the distinctive character of the work achieved by the musicians of these cities. In the city of the Church, patronage was almost wholly ecclesiastical, and the music composed there at that period belonged to the church chiefly. In Venice, Music was influenced by both the Church and the people, the effect of which soon manifested itself in an unmistakable manner. Adrian Willaert could not have failed to observe the essentially different tone of thought and action belonging to the people of these States. He found the Venetians prepared to be led into an untrodden path, namely, that of Domestic Music, and it fell to him to be their pioneer. In Rome he had witnessed the solid foundation upon which the Roman School of Music was raised, to which his countrymen had contributed so much, and he appears to have aimed at establishing in Venice a school equally solid at its base, but which should have a section, in which Domestic Music might partake of that high excellence which had hitherto belonged almost exclusively to the Church.
3That Adrian Willaert succeeded in accomplishing this, and that the madrigal was instrumental in the achievement, is made clear by reference to his fifty years' labour in this particular section of vocal music. We shall there discover that during this long period, scarcely a collection of motetts and madrigals was given to the public, to which he did
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