Roman school (music)

The Sistine Chapel

The Roman school ( Italian: Scuola romana ) is the modern name of the group of Renaissance and Early Baroque composers who worked in Rome in the papal Sistine Chapel in the second half of the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries. The most famous representatives of the Roman school - J.P. yes Palestrina , T.L. de Victoria and G. Allegri ; representatives of the Roman school also include J. Carissimi , F. Anerio , J. M. Nanino , M.A. Ingenieri , J. Yannakkoni , F. Soriano and others.

The central area of ​​creativity of the composers of the Roman school is polyphonic vocal (unaccompanied by instruments) church music, which is considered by historians as developing the style of the Franco-Flemish composer school . The music of the composers of the Roman school was composed primarily on traditional (Latin) texts of the mass ( ordinarium and proprietorship ) and offition ( antiphones , hymns , respondents , etc.) - biblical (from the Vulgate), as well as prayer books or poetic paraphrases of the Holy Scriptures. The main musical genres of the Roman school are mass and motet .

Compared to the Venice school , which presented various "progressive" musical genres and compositional techniques, the music of the Roman school is considered to be "conservative", guided by the ethical and aesthetic canon set by the decisions of the Council of Trent . The style, known as prima pratica (also stile antico ), composers of the Roman school continued to hold even at the beginning of the Baroque era, despite the widespread dissemination of technology and style ( seconda pratica ) of modern times.