Palestrina and the Counter-Reformation

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. What was the name of the Catholic Church's response to the Protestant Reformation?

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. Near what large city was Palestrina born?

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. Palestrina composed a mass that served as a defense of polyphony in church music and named it after which figure in the Church's history?

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. Palestrina served as choirmaster under a grand total of two popes at the Vatican.

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. Frustrated with the abuses prevalent in the Catholic Church, Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg church in order to split the Catholic Church.

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