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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina diverted the return to Gregorian chant by demonstrating the beauty and reverence of polyphonic music in his compositions. He is credited with saving polyphony from being banned by the Council of Trent and his music became a model for sacred music in the Catholic Church.
Gregoran Chant is not a composer. Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic liturgical music within Western Christianity that accompanied the celebration of Mass and other ritual services. Get a chant composer and we will evaluate the work.
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Polyphonic - the weaving together of many ("poly") sounds. The line - voice - containing the chant is called the cantus firmus. The other voices can be derived from the chant or independently composed.
The composer known by all those names is Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. He was an Italian Renaissance composer known for his sacred polyphonic music.
'Polyphony' does not describe Gregorian chant.
The polyphonic nature of the music was utterly lost on David.
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four Christmas motets by Poulenc. Poulenc is a French musical composer. A motet is a choral, maybe polyphonic piece of music.
Plainchant or Gregorian chant are synonymous terms for liturgical chant in music.