Cadential and Modal Treatment in Palestrina’s Delle Madrigali Spirituali a Cinque Voci Libro Secondo (1594) and Lasso’s Lagrime di San Pietro (1595)

Ceulemans, Anne-Emmanuelle
(2019) Musurgia : analyse et pratique musicales — Vol. 26, n° 2, p. 71-94 (2019)

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The article analyzes the cadential treatment of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Delle Madrigali Spirituali a Cinque Voci Libro secondo (1594) and Orlando di Lasso's Lagrime di San Pietro (published posthumously in 1595) in relation to 16th-century modal theory. The results of this comparative analysis are tested against the theories of polyphonic modes developed by Bernhard Meier and Harold Powers. This research shows that in sixteenth century polyphony, modes are an epiphenomenon in relation to counterpoint and possess no universal significance. This, however, does not prevent them from being, at times, a priori categories in musical composition.
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Ceulemans, A.-E. (2019). Cadential and Modal Treatment in Palestrina’s Delle Madrigali Spirituali a Cinque Voci Libro Secondo (1594) and Lasso’s Lagrime di San Pietro (1595). Musurgia : analyse et pratique musicales, 26(2), 71-94. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/125504 (Original work published 2019)