Musical Offerings ⦁ 2025 ⦁ Volume 16 ⦁ Number 1 25 music had largely passed into oblivion.”57 After his death, his composition of Missa Papae Marcelli written to satisfy the reforms of the Council of Trent became an increasingly dramatized story until it contained little truth. Despite its inaccuracies, however, the legend promoted Palestrina and grew his reputation. More tangible was the impact Palestrina had on Fux’s Gradus ad Parnassum and indirectly on many years of composition study. Whether through the legend of saving church music or by his very real impact on Fux and Gradus ad Parnassum, Palestrina established a meaningful reputation that continues today. Bibliography Alwes, Chester. “Palestrina’s Style: The Art of Balance.” The Choral Journal 35, no. 1 (1994): 13–17. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23550086. Bush, Alan. “The Study and Teaching of Musical Composition.” The Musical Times 93, no. 1318 (1952): 539–542. https://doi.org/10.2307/934803. Chen, Jen-Yen. “Palestrina and the Influence of ‘Old’ Style in Eighteenth-Century Vienna.” Journal of Musicological Research 22, no. 1–2 (2003): 1–44. https://cedarville.ohionet.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohos t.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edselc&AN=edselc.252.034 347322422&site=eds-live Coates, Henry. Palestrina. London, Great Britain: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1948. Fellerer, Karl Gustav, and Moses Hadas. “Church Music and the Council of Trent.” The Musical Quarterly 39, no. 4 (1953): 576–94. http://www.jstor.org/stable/739857. Fux, Johann Joseph. The Study of Counterpoint. Translated and edited by Alfred Mann. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1965. Jeppesen, Knud. Counterpoint: The Polyphonic Vocal Style of the Sixteenth Century. Translated by Glen Haydon. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963. 57 Palestrina, vii.
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