the old music subordinated text to music, whereas in the new music the text dominated the music. Old rules of counterpoint could be broken in service of the text. According to Giulio Cesare, these concepts were a hearkening back to ancient Greek musical practice. 18th–19th century The great composers of the late Baroque all wrote compositions in the stile antico, especially Bach. His Mass in B minor has sections written in stile antico which contrast with up-to-date Baroque idioms. Later composers such as Haydn and Mozart also used stile antico. Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, written after the composer's study of Palestrina, is a late flowering of the style. Late Baroque For 18th-century composers such as Bach, can refer to music composed as late as the early years of that century, for example by Antonio Lotti and Pietro Torri. Bach's interest in this style grew in the 1730s, and in the last two decades of his life (1730s–1740s) he would write in this style more frequently, leading to an outspoken style shift in this composer's work around 1740. Classical era Romantic era References Sources Stephen R. Miller. "Stile antico", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed March 19, 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access). Claude V. Palisca. "Prima pratica", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed March 19, 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access). Grout, Donald J. A History of Western Music (6th ed.), W.W. Norton and Company, New York, 2001. Further reading Classical music styles Baroque music