Gabrielli two-choir piece

[publishing] Gabrielli two-choir piece

When I started the Renaissance band, one of the things I advertised
that we were going to do was Gabrielli, that being the
Renaissance music that brass players are most likely to wish
they had a lot of brass players to play with.

Unfortunately, the group never really attracted a lot of brass
players, so we didn’t really end up doing a lot of Gabrielli.
But one of the group members (Bonnie Rogers) played a two choir Gabrielli with a
(mostly) recorder group, and transcribed it for the group.

We did actually have nine people once at the Renaissance band, and
did it with a recorder choir and an “other” choir (we had me on
serpent, a fiddle, an oboe and a singer), and it was lots of
fun. So if you’re in the mood for Gabrielli two-choir pieces in
unbarred parts, here’s one to try: Canzon
Septimi toni a 8, from from Sacrae Symphoniae (1597).

I seem to be getting some energy for putting up the stuff we’ve
been doing that doesn’t quite fit the normal scripts I run to
get things into the database and onto the site. This one is
abnormal because the two choirs got transcribed separately and
combined manually.

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Laura Conrad

Last modified: Sat Feb 18 16:28:01 EST 2006