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Father of music. Giovanni Battista Pietro Aloisio da Palestrina. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was “the prince of musicians.” (1529–1594.)
Father of Greek music. Terpander. (Flourished B.C. 676.)
The prince of music. G. Pietro A. da Palestrina (1529–1594).
Music hath charms, etc.; from Congreve’s Mourning Bride, i. 1.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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