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Venetian polychoral style
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Venetian polychoral style · In San Marco in Venice, singers and musicians stood facing one another on different galleries. Adriaan Willaert from Flanders, choirmaster from 1527, wrote psalms for two choirs that alternate. Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli developed that into music for several choirs with cornetts, trombones and violins. Giovanni's Sonata pian' e forte of 1597 contains one of the first instances of loud and soft written into the notes, and that play with space and sound pointed forward to the Baroque.
Listening
Listening tip. In Andrea Gabrieli's Gloria for sixteen voices, hear how groups of singers and wind players alternate, as if they sound from different sides of the church, and only play all together at the high points.
Gloria à 16 (Andrea Gabrieli) · Gabrieli Consort & Players & Paul McCreesh, 1587
Dixit Dominus (Willaert) · Collegium Vocale Gent & Euterpe Ensemble, 1550- Sonata pian' e forte (Giovanni Gabrieli) · Gabrieli Consort & Players & Paul McCreesh, 1597
See also
- Claudio Monteverdi
- Gabrieli Consort & Players & Paul McCreesh
- Collegium Vocale Gent & Euterpe Ensemble
- Franco-Flemish polyphony
- Concerto and sonata
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