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Sonata pian’ e forte
music by Gabrieli
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development of sonata
- In sonata: Early development in Italy
…“sonata,” such as Giovanni Gabrieli’s Sonata pian’ e forte (Soft and Loud Sonata) of 1597, which was one of the first works to specify instrumentation in detail; the instrumental fantasia and the canzona, an instrumental form derived from the chanson or secular French part-song, display a similar
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use of wind instruments
- In wind instrument: The Baroque period
His Sonata pian’ e forte (1597), the first musical composition for which instrumentation is specified, employs two ensembles of equal size—three trombones and cornett; and three trombones and a viola da braccio (early violin)—sometimes playing together, sometimes separately.
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