Listening Journal #7 Conzona

Today, I will be doing another listening journal and this time I will be listening to Conzona Sonare No.2 By Gabrieli. I am playing a brass arrangement of this piece, so I already know what it sounds like.

Musical Elements
Tonality: Major
Timbre: All brass, Tuba, Trombone, Trumpet (airohpones)
Texture: Polyphonic
Duple Simple
Tempo: Moderate speed

Musical Structure

Turnary
A (0:00-0:28)  
B (0:29-1:44)
A (1:45-end)
Modulates in the B section and then cadences back to the A section
Overall very repetitive and imitative. The melody is passed around each instrument many times

Musical Techniques

decrescendo in the B section and gets loader in the A section
all of the moving parts were clearly loader than the other parts

Musical Context

Baroque Era
Italian
Canzona, an imitative style of music