Palestrina | Arts in the Renaissance

After a brief introduction to Renaissance music and the composer Palestrina, Bruce Heim, music professor at the University of Louisville, discusses key characteristics of Renaissance music. The segment concludes with the Louisville Brass performing an instrumental arrangement of Palestrina’s “Sicut cervus.”

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