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Excerpt from Publications of the Catholic Truth Society, Vol. 24
In depth of feeling, true pathos, and perfect adapta tion of the music to the sense of the words, these com positions of Palestrina have never been surpassed. They were first performed at St. John Lateran's, on Good Friday, 1560. The Lamentations, too, soon attracted attention, and Paul IV. Added them to the music of the Apostolic Chapel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
