Canzon II a 6 - No. 196 (arr. Randy A. Steinberg) by Giovanni Gabrieli Sheet Music for Brass Ensemble at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Giovanni Gabrieli

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Giovanni Gabrieli

Arranger Randy A. Steinberg

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 35

Arrangement Brass Ensemble

Publisher Randy A. Steinberg

Level 4

Product ID 966621

Genre Baroque

Performance Group Brass Ensemble

Product Description

Giovanni Gabrieli was no mere composer. He was an event. The figure at the nexus of many things all coming together in one grand tide. The greatest church in the greatest city of Europe. Freedom of intellectual thought. A Venetian School of composers at the forefront of musical innovation. The printing press and musical publishing. A Doge (Chief Magistrate or Duke) willing to spend, and spend big, on musical pomp and ceremony. A dearth of wealth and money to fund the grandest celebrations. He was the leading Italian composer and organist in Venice at its greatest heights at the chasm between the end of the Renaissance and the beginning of the Baroque period in music. Presented here is an early Canzona published around 1615 for 6 brass. A variety of substitute parts are also included to handle the trumpet and trombone parts with French horns and tubas. The piece starts with a short song-like melody and rhythm that is then repeated with many variations throughout. A nice early introduction to the Gabrieli instrumental ensemble works, published shortly after his death, for a smaller single ensemble.

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