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Stile antico, literally 'ancient style', is a term describing music from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries. It refers to a manner of composition which is historically-conscious, as opposed to stile moderno. It has been associated with composers of the high Baroque
Baroque music

Baroque music describes a period or style of European classical music approximately extending from Dates of classical music eras. This era is said to begin in music after the Renaissance music and was followed by the Classical music era....
 and early Classical periods of music, in which composers use controlled use of dissonance, modal
Musical mode

Mode is a term from Western music theory having three senses: the rhythmic relationship between long and short values in the late medieval period; in early medieval theory, Interval ; and, most commonly, a concept involving Musical scale and melody type ....
 effects and the avoidance of overtly instrumental textures and lavish ornamentation to imitate the compositional style of the late Renaissance
Renaissance music

Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance, approximately 1400 - 1600. Dates of classical music eras, given the lack of abrupt shifts in musical thinking during the 15th century....
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Stile antico, literally 'ancient style', is a term describing music from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries. It refers to a manner of composition which is historically-conscious, as opposed to stile moderno. It has been associated with composers of the high Baroque
Baroque music

Baroque music describes a period or style of European classical music approximately extending from Dates of classical music eras. This era is said to begin in music after the Renaissance music and was followed by the Classical music era....
 and early Classical periods of music, in which composers use controlled use of dissonance, modal
Musical mode

Mode is a term from Western music theory having three senses: the rhythmic relationship between long and short values in the late medieval period; in early medieval theory, Interval ; and, most commonly, a concept involving Musical scale and melody type ....
 effects and the avoidance of overtly instrumental textures and lavish ornamentation to imitate the compositional style of the late Renaissance
Renaissance music

Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance, approximately 1400 - 1600. Dates of classical music eras, given the lack of abrupt shifts in musical thinking during the 15th century....
. Stile antico was deemed appropriate in the conservative confines of church music
Church music

----------------Church music may be defined as music written for performance in church, or any musical setting of ecclestiacal liturgy, or music set to words expressing propositions of a sacred nature, such as a hymn....
, or as a compositional exercise as in J. J. Fux
Johann Fux

Johann Joseph Fux was an Austrian composer, music theory and pedagogue of the late Baroque music era. He is most famous as the author of Gradus ad Parnassum, a treatise on counterpoint, which has become the single most influential book on the Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina style of Renaissance music polyphony....
's Gradus Ad Parnassum (1725), the classic text-book on strict counterpoint
Counterpoint

In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more Register that are independent in contour and rhythm, and interdependent in harmony....
. Much of the music associated with this style looks to the music of Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italy composer of the Renaissance music. He was the most famous sixteenth-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition....
 as a model.

In the early Baroque Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi , was an Italian composer, viol, and singer.Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the music of the Renaissance music to that of the Baroque music....
 and his brother coined the term prima pratica
Prima pratica

Prima pratica, literally "first practice", refers to early Baroque music which looks more to the style of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, or the style codified by Gioseffo Zarlino, than to more "modern" styles....
 to refer to the older style of Palestrina, and seconda pratica
Seconda pratica

Seconda pratica, literally "second practice", is the counterpart to prima pratica and is more commonly referred to as Stile moderno. The term "Seconda pratica" was coined by Claudio Monteverdi to distance his music from that of e.g....
 to refer to Monteverdi's music.

The great composers of the late Baroque all wrote compositions in this style, especially Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
. His Mass in B minor
Mass in B Minor (Bach)

The Mass in B minor is a musical setting of the Latin Mass by Johann Sebastian Bach.Although parts of the Mass in B minor date to 1724, the whole was assembled in its present form in 1749, just before the composer's death in 1750....
 has sections written in stile antico which jostle with up-to-date Baroque idioms. Later composers such as Haydn
Joseph Haydn

Joseph Haydn was an Austrians composer. He was one of the most prominent composers of the classical music era, and is called by some the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet"....
 and Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
 also used stile antico. Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
's Missa Solemnis
Missa Solemnis (Beethoven)

The Missa solemnis in D Major, opus number 123 was composed by Ludwig van Beethoven from 1819-1823. It was first performed on April 7, 1824 in St....
, written after the composer's study of Palestrina, is a late flowering of the style.