Gabrieli - Venetian Renaissance Music Features
- Created by: Hazel Rimmer
- Created on: 06-06-13 17:15
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- Gabrieli - Venetian Renaissance Music
- Forces
- Cornett
- Sackbutts
- Violin (closer to a modern day viola's range)
- Use of 2 coros
- Not idiomatic instrumental writing
- Terraced dynamics
- Texture
- Polychoral style texture was a common feature of the Venetian Renaissance
- Two coros to be positioned on the seperate balconies of St. Mark's - antiphonal texture (q & a between coros at bars 37-40)
- The main texture is free polyphony
- There is occasional imitation, e.g. bars 4 beat 4-bar 6 beat 1
- In Free Counterpoint
- Structure
- Through-composed - no repetition of sections
- Sectional - links to vocal music
- Tonality
- The piece is in the Dorian Mode on G
- There is a section suggesting the Mixolydian mode from bars 26-31
- Harmony
- Root position chords and 1st inversion chords are used e.g. bar 14
- Suspensions are the main form of dissonance e.g. bar 3 beat 4 to bar 4 beat 1
- There are tierces de picardie
- There are perfect, b13-14, imperfect, plagal and phrygian b44-5 cadences
- False relation in bar 3
- Melody
- Melodic interest moves from part to part, or is in 2 parts, e.g. bars 1-2
- Melody lines are conjunct, sometimes forming scalic movement - derived from vocal music
- Largest leap is an octave
- Restricted range
- Frequent leaps of 4th or 5th e.g. bar 6
- Rhythm & Metre
- Frequent dotted notes
- Syncopation e.g. bar 3 Tromb 3
- In split common time (2/2)
- In 3/2 at bars 30 and 44
- Limited note lengths
- Forces
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