Context

Question 1

Gabrieli served

Answer 1

as organist at St. Mark’s Cathedral, Venice

Question 2

written

Answer 2

around 1600

Question 3

architecture of St Mark’s

Answer 3

various separate galleries for different groups of performers, which encouraged the development fo polychordal textures

Question 4

uses the technique of

Answer 4

Seconda Prattica - more characteristic of the early Baroque than Renaissance

Question 5

Seconda Prattica

Answer 5

• use of basso continuo
• increased chromaticism
• more elaborate solo writing
• more homophonic than contrapuntal

Question 6

published

Answer 6

posthumously in 1615