His pay was very small, and the expense of publishing his works, which does not seem to have been defrayed by patrons, was at that time very great.

Yet he enjoyed an uncontested reputation as the first of living composers, the saviour of Church music, the creator of a new style; and on his tomb, in 1594, was inscribed this title: _Princeps Musicae_.
[Footnote 207: See Michelet, _Histoire de France_, vol.xi.pp.

76, 101, vol.xii.p.

383 (Paris: Lacroix, 1877).] The state of confusion into which ecclesiastical music had fallen, rendered it inevitable that some notice of so grave a scandal should be taken by the Fathers of the Tridentine Council in their deliberations on reform of ritual.

It appears, therefore, that in their twenty-second session (September 17, 1562) they enjoined upon the Ordinaries to 'exclude from churches all such music as, whether through the organ or the singing, introduces anything of impure or lascivious, in order that the house of God may truly be seen to be and may be called the house of prayer.'[208] In order to give effect to this decree of the Tridentine Council, Pius IV.