Aria della battaglia andrea gabrieli biography
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Andrea Gabrieli
Biography
Andrea Gabrieli (/ – August 30, ) was an Italian composer and organist.
Details on Gabrieli's early life are sketchy. He was probably a native of Venice, most likely the parish of S. Geremia. He may have been a pupil of Adrian Willaert at St. Mark's in Venice at an early age. There is some evidence that he may have spent some time in Verona in the early s, due to a connection with Vincenzo Ruffo, who worked there as maestro di cappella – Ruffo published one of Gabrieli's madrigals in , and Gabrieli also wrote some music for a Veronese academy. Gabrieli is known to have been organist in Cannaregio between and , at which time he competed unsuccessfully for the post of organist at St. Mark's.
In he went to Germany, where he visited Frankfurt am Main and Munich; while there he met and became friends with Orlande de Lassus, one of the most wide-ranging composers of the entire Renaissance. Gabrieli took back to Venice numerous ideas he learned while visiting Lassus in Bavaria, and within a short time was composing in most of the current idioms, including one which Lassus entirely avoided: purely instrumental music.
Gabrieli was the first internationally renowned member of the Venetian School of composers, and was extremely influential in spreadi
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Aria della battaglia
Andrea Gabrieli (ed. Mark Davis Scatterday)
General Info
Year: /
Duration: c.
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher:Alfred Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $; (digital) - $ &#;&#;|&#;&#; Score Only (print) - $; (digital) - $
Instrumentation
Sixteen numbered parts. Each part may be played by various modern instruments.
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Aria della battaglia (Battle Song) is from the Dialoghi musicali de diversi eccelentissimi autori, published in Venice in One of only two surviving Gabrieli pieces designated for large instrumental ensemble, the work is subtitledper sonare d’instrumenti da fiato (to be played by wind instruments), although an exact scoring is not specified. Following Clément Janequin’s La Guerre (The War) and preceding Monteverdi’s Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi (Madrigals of War and Love), Aria della battaglia reflects the popular sixteenth-century tradition of programmatic music depicting battle or warfare. This piece does not depict a specific battle, but instead alternates the expected fanfares and imitations of conflict with passages of song and dance.
- Program Note by Patricia Cornett
The current edition of Gabrieli's Aria dell
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- Chapter:
- CHAPTER 18 Reformations and Piece Reformations
- Source:
- MUSIC FROM Depiction EARLIEST NOTATIONS TO Say publicly SIXTEENTH CENTURY
- Author(s):
- Richard Taruskin
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