style of Palestrina, though curiously he maintained that the "rules" of counterpoint were made to be broken, and should be abandoned as soon as a composer had learned his craft: paradoxically, even in the 21st century, no style of composition is taught in a more rigorous, rule-based way than the polyphonic idiom of Palestrina. While the treatise shows that he possessed considerable compositional skill, no music by Cerone has survived and he is not known to have published any. He died in Naples. Notes References Barton Hudson: "Pietro Cerone", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed November 4, 2006), (subscription access) Further reading Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954. . Article "Pietro Cerone", in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. . Oliver Strunk, Source Readings in Music History. New York, W.W. Norton & Co, 1950. Contains a portion of El melopeo y maestro in English. External links Complete copy of Cerone's treatise El melopeo y maestro at the World Digital Library 1566 births 1625 deaths Italian music theorists Musicians from Bergamo Clergy from Bergamo