Giovanni Gabrieli, Music for Christmas. Giovanni Gabrieli Music for Christmas in Saint Mark Basilicaof Venice, Jean Tubery. Giovanni Gabrieli's Christmas Motets Thomas Coryate, writing in his …More
Giovanni Gabrieli, Music for Christmas.
Giovanni Gabrieli Music for Christmas in Saint Mark Basilicaof Venice, Jean Tubery.
Giovanni Gabrieli's Christmas Motets
Thomas Coryate, writing in his Crudities hastily globbed up in five Moneth’s Travels was transported almost beyond all words by his discovery at the Venetian Church of San Rocco in 1608 of
“... the best musicke that ever I did in all my life both in the morning and the afternoon, so good that I would willingly goe an hundred miles a foote at any time to hear the like... this feast consisted principally of Musicke, which was both vocall and instrumentall, so good, so delectable, so rare, so admirable, so superexcellent, that it did even ravish and stupifie all those strangers that never heard the like. But how others were affected with it I knew not: for mine own part I can say this, that I was for the time even rapt up with Saint Paul into the third heaven...”
Of the singers too he was equally enthused, for ‘there were three …More
Giovanni Gabrieli Music for Christmas in Saint Mark Basilicaof Venice, Jean Tubery.
Giovanni Gabrieli's Christmas Motets
Thomas Coryate, writing in his Crudities hastily globbed up in five Moneth’s Travels was transported almost beyond all words by his discovery at the Venetian Church of San Rocco in 1608 of
“... the best musicke that ever I did in all my life both in the morning and the afternoon, so good that I would willingly goe an hundred miles a foote at any time to hear the like... this feast consisted principally of Musicke, which was both vocall and instrumentall, so good, so delectable, so rare, so admirable, so superexcellent, that it did even ravish and stupifie all those strangers that never heard the like. But how others were affected with it I knew not: for mine own part I can say this, that I was for the time even rapt up with Saint Paul into the third heaven...”
Of the singers too he was equally enthused, for ‘there were three …More
