Sonata Octavi Toni

Giovanni Gabrieli

Subtitle: Sacrae Symphoniae (Venice, 1597) for Twelve-Part Brass Choir

This work bears the designation C184.

General Info

Year: 1597 / 1957
Duration: c. 4:45
Difficulty: III (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Alphonse Leduc
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $39.70

Instrumentation

Full Score

Choir I

B-flat Trumpet I
B-flat Trumpet II (Horn)
Horn (Trombone)
Trombone I-II
Euphonium or Trombone [Tuba]

Choir II

B-flat Trumpet I
B-flat Trumpet II (Horn)
Horn (Trombone)
Trombone I-II
Euphonium or Trombone [Tuba]

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Like the Sonata pian’ e forte this imposing piece is essentially a seamless, harmonized melody, whose wide reaches are passed from one choir to the other in a fine display of Gabrieli’s genius for controlled musical tension. Note the powerfully effective repetition of the penultimate section, and superb sense of new harmonies in the final tutti. The texture is remarkable, too, the centre of gravity in each of the six-part choirs being very low; the bottom four instruments are closely spaced, the top two wider apart, which helps the leader to shine and the second part to emerge from the texture from time to time.

- Program Note by Timothy Roberts

Sacrae Symphoniae (1597) is a collection of 45 motets for 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 15, and 16 voices, and 16 canzonas and sonatas for 8, 10, 12, and 15 instruments. Sonata ocatvi toni is number 59 on this list, chapter 183.

- Program Note from Wikipedia

Media

Audio CD: London Symphony Brass (Eric Crees, conductor) - 2008

State Ratings

Indiana: 090 LARGE BRASS ENSEMBLES
Ohio: Brass Choir A

Performances

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Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

Canzon per Sonare No. 4 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Marlatt) (c. 1597/2012)

All Wind Works

Canzon Duodecimi Toni (arr. Bryan) (1597/2021)
Canzon Duodecimi Toni (ed.King) (1597/1958)
Canzon in Double Echo (ed. King) (/1973)
Canzon Noni Toni (arr. King) (1597/19--?)
Canzon per Sonar Primi Toni, no. 1 (arr. Higgins) (1597/2014)
Canzon per Sonare No. 4 (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Marlatt) (c. 1597/2012)
Canzon pian’ e forte (arr. Taillard) (1597/2002)
Canzon primi toni
Canzon primi toni a 8 (1597/2007)
Canzon Quarta (arr. Hautvast) (1608/2011)
Canzon quarti toni (adapt. King) (1597/1959)
Canzon septimi toni 8, no. 2 (ed. Block) (1597/1972)
Canzon septimi toni No 1
Canzon septimi toni No 2 (1597/1958)
Canzon septimi toni no. 2 (ed. Crees) (1597/1996)
Canzona No. 1 (arr. Margolis) (1597/1985)
Canzon VI á 7 (arr. Magatagan) (<1612/2013)
Canzona VI (arr. Salfelder) (<1612/2020?)
Canzona per sonare No. 2 (ed. King) (1608/1959)
Canzona per sonare No. 4 (ed. King) (1608/1957)
Canzoni XVI & XVII (arr. Salfelder and Peltz) (1608/2021)
Canzoni 27 & 28 for 4 Trumpets and 4 Trombones (ed. Lumsden) (1608/1967)
Jubilate Deo (tr. Mathie) (1597/2008)
O Magnum Mysterium (arr. Higgins) (1587/2015)
Sonata Octavi Toni (ed. King) (1597/1957)
Sonata Octavi Toni (ed. Sherman) (1597/2021)
Sonata Pian' E Forte
Sonata Pian'e Forte (ed. Higgins)
Sonata Pian'e Forte (ed. King) (1958)
Sonata Pian’ e forte a 8 (orch. Stokowski) (1597)
Sonata XIX a 15 (ed. Smith) (<1612/1970)
Sonata XX a 22 (tr. Scatterday) (1615)
Two Canzonas

Resources

Gabrieli, G.; King, R. (1957). Sonata Octavi Toni, Sacrae Symphoniae, Venice 1597 : For Twelve-Part Brass Choir [score]. R. King Music: N. Easton, Mass.
Giovanni Gabrieli Works, Wikipedia Accessed 20 May 2018
Roberts, Timothy. " Sonata octavi toni a 12, C184." Hyperion. Web. Accessed 20 May 2018