Wednesday 21 April 2010

Eclectic style which blended archaism and modernity: Jacobus Gallus (1550-1591) - genial composer of Slovenian descent

Motet mirabile mysterium, together with the other chromatic transitions, foreshadowed the breakup of modality.


His well-graced and unique "word painting" in the style of the madrigal




Rich, polyphonic, eight-voice Pater noster in famous Venetian polychoral manner of "corri spezzati"




Or just simply simple Ecce quomodo moritur iustus, later used by George Frideric Handel in his funeral anthem The Ways of Zion Do Mourn.

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