palestrina
IPA: pæɫɪstrˈinʌ
Root Word: Palestrina
noun
- a city in Lazio, Italy.
- (ancient Praeneste; , Prainestos) a modern Italian city and comune (municipality) with a population of about 22,000, in Lazio, about east of Rome.
- an opera by the German composer Hans Pfitzner, first performed in 1917.
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Examples of "palestrina" in Sentences
- Since then Palestrina has written nothing.
- Especially the choir music from Palestrina.
- He is best known as the teacher of Palestrina.
- Although Palestrina is notable enough to be in both.
- The city is the site of Palestrina music conservatory.
- Palestrina became famous through his output of sacred music.
- The Style of Palestrina and the Dissonance. 2nd ed., London, 1946.
- Pierluigi da Palestrina dedicated to him the first book of Madrigals.
- Among the works are parody masses of works of Palestrina and Guerrero.
- Maybe it's time for a rewrite of Palestrina, now that he's on the student list.