Music 1a Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Kapellmeister, Giovanni Gabrieli, Andrea Gabrieli
17 Mar 2016
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2 maestri di concerti [leaders of instrumental ensembles] 3 choirs, each consisting of different combinations of voices: contrast and dialogue: dramatic music, contrasts of register, solo versus choir, contrasts of motive, meter, and harmony, in ecclesiis (published posthumously 1615) Borders on a new era of musical composition. For most, no longer renaissance music (more like baroque ) Gabrieli turned to issues that formerly belonged to the domain of decorative color. These new compositional issues determine and define the very structure of the piece: solo vs. choir, missed some. Designed according to ritornello principle (recurring choral refrain on word alleluia: everyone comes together on the alleluia, singers and instrumentalists, then moves back to soloist, monody soloist stepping forward to sing solo. Sections between refrains: scored for small groups of voices or instruments, mainly feature florid soloistic writing. Broader sequential paragraphs of musical ideas: frequent changes in these ideas (unlike with palestrina and, basso continuo.
