Sonata Octavi Toni (arr. Sherman)

Giovanni Gabrieli

General Info

Year:1597 / 2021
Duration: c. 4:45
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Manuscript
Cost: Score and Parts - In press

Instrumentation

Full Score
Two brass choirs, each consisting of:

B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II
Trombone
Bass Trombone
Tuba (optional in second choir)

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

Brass players of a certain age grew up on the recordings of Giovanni Gabrieli's music by the combined forces of the brass ensembles from the Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, and Chicago Symphony. The Sacrae Symphoniae (1597) is a collection of 63 motets, canzonas, and sonatas for various sized ensembles. While Gabrieli was not the first composer to write for antiphonal choirs, he did take complete advantage of the two opposing choir lofts in San Marco church in Venice. He pioneered the use of tiered dynamics and orchestrations for specific instruments and voices.

- Program Note from Cleveland Winds concert program, 21 March 2021

Media

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State Ratings

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Performances

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Cleveland (Ohio) Winds (Birch Browning, conductor) - 21 March 2021

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

Giovanni Gabrieli Works, Wikipedia Accessed 20 May 2018
J.c. Sherman website Accessed 19 March 2021