Like his uncle, this composer studied under Orlande de Lassus while working at the court of Duke Albrecht V in Munich. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Venetian composer whose student, Heinrich Schütz, brought the Italian Baroque style to Germany. This composer of many Sacrae Symphoniae wrote the Sonata pian' e forte, one of the first pieces to specify dynamics.
ANSWER: Giovanni Gabrieli
[10e] Gabrieli’s Sonata pian' e forte calls for six of these instruments. A large part of the ensemble at St. Mark’s Cathedral consisted of these brass instruments that developed from the sackbut.
ANSWER: trombone
[10h] In this excerpt by a different composer, four or five trombones play half-note open fifths while trumpets and cornets play a melody beginning with a fast ascent from D to A, followed by a scalar descent to D in dotted eighth-sixteenth note pairs.
ANSWER: the toccata from L’Orfeo [prompt on the opening or beginning of L’Orfeo; prompt on Claudio Monteverdi’s toccata by asking “from which piece?”; reject answers that include “prologue,” “overture,” or “first scene”]
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