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Filippo Neri, by his side ; and, commencing with the action of this friend of the great com- poser, the history of Church music, so far as it is specially connected with our main subject, must now be brought down to the period which has been reached in dealing with secular music. St. Filippo Neri was the founder of a Society called the Oratorians, whose object was to reclaim and reform men, especially by preach- ing ; and among the means employed to attract congregations to their Church was the... use of music. In all ages of the Church more proselytizing seems to have been effected by hymns than by any other means. Magnificence of architecture and richness of ornament were also laid under contribution by the Oratorians, and their Church of St. Maria in Valicella, or the " Chiesa Nuova," as it was popularly called, became a fashionable resort of Roman society. One of the earliest composers for the new 126 THE RENAISSANCE OF MUSIC. sect in the sixteenth century was a musician of note, Giovanni Animuccia, who occupied the office of maestro di cappella at St.
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