stile antico
noun
sti·le an·ti·co
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Definition of stile antico
: the standard polyphonic style of 16th-century church music especially as employed in the 17th century
Most Spanish composers defended the purity and aptness of the stile antico for sacred texts.— Julie Anne Sadie, Companion to Baroque Music, 1998
— compare stile moderno
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