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Sonata XIX a 15
Giovanni Gabrieli (ed. David Smith and Glenn Smith)
Subtitle: For Large Brass Ensemble, Triple Choir
This work bears the designation Ch. 212.
General Info
Year: <1612 / 1970
Duration: c. 5:55
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Fifteen nonspecific instruments
Publisher: Associated Music Publishers
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $24.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III-IV-V-VI
Horn in F I-II-III
Trombone I-II-III
Tuba I-II-III
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Sonata XIX à 15 by Italian composer Giovanni Gabrieli is a grand example of his bold and florid compositional style, which is indicative of the transitional time period when he was the principal organist at Saint Mark’s Basilica in Venice. Sonata XIX à 15 appeared in a posthumously published group of works in 1615 that included seventeen canzoni and four sonati consequently named Canzoni e Sonate. All of these works were intended “per sonar con ogni sorte de instrumenti con il basso per l’organo,” or intended to be played on “all sorts” of instruments with the organ bass.
Gabrieli also used the unusual layout of the Saint Mark’s church, with two choir lofts facing each other, to create his well-known antiphonal style of composition. The acoustics in the church are such that instruments correctly positioned could be heard with perfect clarity at distant points. While the brass instruments of the time, such as the sackbut and cornetto, were less brilliant and quite different in timbre, the timelessness of Gabrieli’s music transfers well to the modern brass instruments of today.
- Program Note from U.S. Marine Band chamber concert program, 2 April 2017
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State Ratings
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Performances
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- University of Iowa (Iowa City) Symphony Band (Josh Neuenschwander, conductor) - 10 December 2020
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.; Smith, D.; Smith, G. [1970]. Sonata XIX a 15 for Large Brass Ensemble, Triple Choir [score]. Associated Music Publishers: New York.