Listening Journal #5

Hello, I'm back again with another blog about music, this time we will be focusing on Renaissance music. The song that is "Canzon septimi toni" by Giovanni Gabrieli.

Musical Elements
Tonality is Major
Timbre has only instruments, some one string, brass, and woodwinds
Polyphonic, many parts are moving at different times while a violin/fiddle is playing over the lower instruments
Triple simple meter

Musical Structure
The main structure of this song is continuous because it is a madrigal.


Musical Techniques
The different phrases or melodic ideas are separated by a cadence after each phrase.

Musical Context
in the Renaissance era
Italian Madrigal
Secular