source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 12:55:50 -0800 Subject: Gabrieli From: Manuel.Op.de.Coul@ezh.nl (Manuel Op de Coul) Matt: Yes, Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1553/56-1612) is famous for his "Canzoni da sonare" canzonas for brass choir. He wrote 36 of them which were published between 1597 and 1615. Although he specified ecclesiastical modes for them, the tonality approaches the major/minor concept. He was organist in the San Marco of Venice and pupil of his uncle Andrea Gabrieli. I can recommend performances of Hesperion XX (on EMI Reflexe though it may be out of print) and also the Netherlands Wind Ensemble. The Italian composer Luca Francesconi (1956) is also crazy about these canzonas and has them influence his compositions, for example Risonanze d'Orfeo. And I suppose I don't tell anything new when I mention that Purcell has a beautiful canzona in Music for the funeral of Queen Mary. Manuel Op de Coul coul@ezh.nl Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 23:18 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA20201; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 23:21:07 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03819 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA00247; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 14:21:03 -0800 Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 14:21:03 -0800 Message-Id: <32C4465C.244A@sprynet.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu