A highlight is composer Kathryn Salfelder’s 2008 piece “Cathedrals,” based on Giovanni Gabrieli’s 1597 work “Canzon Primi Toni.” “Cathedrals” features two brass choirs, performing ...

Donald Macleod explores the work of Andrea and nephew Giovanni Gabrieli, who presided over public music-making at a time when Venice was becoming one of the key centres of musical life in Europe ...

In the church music written for St Mark's in Venice by Giovanni Gabrieli and later Claudio Monteverdi, groups of performers of different kinds, vocal and instrumental, and placed in different ...

Here is an example of what heterophonic texture looks like in Western classical music: The renaissance composer Giovanni Gabrieli used a lot of antiphony in his writing. Much of his music was ...