Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

Its derivation from Palestrina, far from being forgotten in the course of its transformation, was
emphasized for its prestige value. Indeed, Fux cast the whole treatise in the form of a dialogue between
the master “Aloysius” (= Palestrina, “Petroaloysius” being the Latinized form of Pierluigi) and the pupil
“Josephus”(=Fux). Either in itself or as absorbed or cribbed by later writers, Fux’s treatise remained
current into the twentieth century, when several other major counterpoint texts educed from Palestrina
were written, further updating the stile antico as a purely pedagogical style, no longer in active use even