In Venice, from about 1534 until around 1600, an impressive polychoral style developed, which gave Europe some of the grandest, most sonorous music composed up until that time, with multiple choirs of singers, brass and strings in different spatial locations in the Basilica San Marco di Venezia ( see Venetian School ).

A new genre was the vocal concertato, combining voices and instruments ; its origins may be sought in the polychoral music of the Venetian school.

This motet for 8 voices shows evidence of influence by the Venetian polychoral style, with its use of the coro spezzato technique.

He rarely used the cantus firmus technique, preferring the then-new Venetian polychoral manner, yet he was equally conversant with earlier imitative techniques.

Polychoral techniques are a definitive characteristic of the music of the Venetian school, exemplified by the works of Giovanni Gabrieli ; this music is often known as the Venetian polychoral style.

In addition to operas, Cavalli wrote settings of the Magnificat in the grand Venetian polychoral style, settings of the Marian antiphons, other sacred music in a more conservative manner – notably a Requiem Mass in eight parts ( SSAATTBB ), probably intended for his own funeral – and some instrumental music.

Some of his masses show influence from the Venetian School, particularly in their use of polychoral techniques ( for example, in the eight-voice Missa osculetur me, based on his own motet ).

The construction of the cathedral in Puebla made the composition and performance of polychoral music possible, especially compositions in the Venetian polychoral style.

According to Gioseffo Zarlino, writing later in the 16th century, Willaert was the inventor of the antiphonal style from which the polychoral style of the Venetian school evolved.

In 1550 he published Salmi spezzati, antiphonal settings of the psalms, the first polychoral work of the Venetian school.

The sacred music in particular shows the influence of the Venetian school, with polychoral writing as well as contrasting duple-versus triple-time sections.

Some of his sacred music uses instruments ( a practice which is not uncommon in Spanish sacred music of the 16th century ), and he also wrote polychoral works for more than one spatially separated group of singers, in the style of the composers of the Venetian school who were working at St. Mark's in Venice.

He was exposed to the latest Italian music, including the polychoral works of the Venetian School.

These works are not polychoral in the usual sense, or in the manner of the Venetian School in which the voices were spatially separated ; rather, the voice sub-groupings change during the pieces.

He also composed liturgical music for the Orthodox Church, combining the Eastern and Western European styles of sacred music, incorporating the polyphony he learned in Italy ; some works were polychoral, using a style descended from the Venetian polychoral technique of the Gabrielis.

27, for four spatially separated choruses ) are progressive works in the Venetian polychoral style.

See also Venetian polychoral style and Venetian School.

The Venetian polychoral style was a type of music of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras which involved spatially separate choirs singing in alternation.

Germany, in particular, was a region where composers began to work in a locally-modified form of the Venetian style, though polychoral works were also composed elsewhere, such as the many masses written in Spain by Tomás Luis de Victoria.

# redirect Venetian polychoral style

It was at this time that he developed his Empire style, notable for its use of warm Venetian colours.

The Lord Provost's main office is decorated in the same Venetian style as the rest of the building.

This style of motet was sometimes called the Venetian motet to distinguish it from the Netherlands or Flemish motet written elsewhere.

* Villa Genoese-Zerbi is a modern villa in 14th-century Venetian style ( Neogothic ).

The Venetian built moat is on the left and the Doric style St. George's Church built by the British can be seen in the background on the right.

The old city's architectural character is strongly influenced by the Venetian style, coming as it did under Venetian rule for a long period ; its small and ancient sidestreets, and the old buildings ' trademark arches are particularly reminiscent of Venice.

Although it seems very old, it is a wonderful imitation of typical Venetian style, built in 1956.

Gallus represented the Counter-Reformation in Bohemia, mixing the polyphonic style of the High Renaissance Franco-Flemish School with the style of the Venetian School.

The colour and texture of Dobson's work was influenced by Venetian art, but Van Dyck's style has little apparent influence on Dobson.

The earliest glassware on display comes from Ancient Egypt and continues through the Ancient Roman, Medieval, Renaissance covering areas such as Venetian glass and Bohemian glass and more recent periods, including Art Nouveau glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Émile Gallé, the Art Deco style is represented by several examples by René Lalique.

The Doge's Palace ( Italian: Palazzo Ducale ) is a palace built in Venetian Gothic style, and one of the main landmarks of the city of Venice, northern Italy.

Practical considerations were certainly responsible for part of this change: the Thirty Years ' War had devastated the musical infrastructure of Germany, and it was no longer practical or even possible to put on the gigantic works in the Venetian style which marked his earlier period.

Even though Lassus used the contemporary, sonorous Venetian style, his harmonic language remained conservative in these works: he adapted the texture of the Venetians to his own artistic ends.

He is considered to have revolutionized Venetian painting, moving it towards a more sensuous and colouristic style.

Following a period studying in Rome, Parma and Venice, Giordano developed an elaborate Baroque style fusing Venetian and Roman Influences.

The Museum has one work by Caravaggio, David defeating Goliath, as well as various by his followers, including Orazio Gentileschi who developed towards a clearly Venetian style, as evident in Moses rescued from the Nile.

Trevelyan's Manin And The Venetian Revolution Of 1848, his last major volume on an Italian theme, was written in a minor key.

It was hit by a shell fired by the bombarding Venetian army and the great central portion of the temple was blown to smithereens.

His arrival was celebrated by a massacre of 80, 000 Latins in Constantinople, especially the Venetian merchants, which he made no attempt to stop.

A Venetian embassy visited Constantinople in 1184 and an agreement was reached that compensation of 1, 500 gold pieces would be paid for the losses incurred in 1171.

Antonio Canova was born in Possagno, a village of the Republic of Venice situated amid the recesses of the hills of Asolo, where these form the last undulations of the Venetian Alps, as they subside into the plains of Treviso.

Canova had obtained letters of introduction to the Venetian ambassador, the Cavaliere Zulian, and enlightened and generous protector of the arts, and was received in the most hospitable manner.

Canova's next undertaking was a monument in honor of Clement XIV ; but before he proceeded with it he deemed it necessary to request permission from the Venetian senate, whose servant he considered himself to be, in consideration of the pension.

Sometime between 1763 and 1764 Salieri suffered the death of both parents and was briefly taken in by an anonymous brother, a monk in Padua, and then for unknown reasons in 1765 or 1766 he became the ward of a Venetian nobleman named Giovanni Mocenigo ( which Giovanni is at this time unknown ), a member of the powerful and well connected Mocenigo family.

A Venetian governor ( rettore ) was appointed, who was dependent on the authorities of Nauplia.

On 12 November, it was transported from Aegina, by Vettore Cappello, the famous Venetian commander.

Aegina had always been exposed to the raids of the corsairs and was cursed with oppressive governors during these last 30 years of Venetian rule.

The 15th century Venetian navigator Alvise Cadamosto made note of what was probably the Southern Cross on exiting the Gambia River in 1455, calling it the carro dell ' ostro (" southern chariot ").

The original Arabic name of Crete was Iqrīṭiš ( < ( της ) Κρήτης ), but after the Emirate of Crete's establishment of its new capital at ربض الخندق Rabḍ al-ḫandaq ( modern Iraklion ), both the city and the island became known as Χάνδαξ ( Khandhax ) or Χάνδακας ( Khandhakas ), which gave Latin and Venetian Candia, from which French Candie and English Candy or Candia.

Little is known of his life, but he was Venetian ambassador to Spain in 1736, where the famous castrato singer Farinelli heard him sing.

The first languages for which standardisation was promoted included Italian (" questione della lingua ": Modern Tuscan / Florentine vs. Old Tuscan / Florentine vs. Venetian > Modern Florentine + archaic Tuscan + Upper Italian ), French ( the standard is based on Parisian ), English ( the standard is based on the London dialect ) and ( High ) German ( based on the dialects of the chancellery of Meissen in Saxony, Middle German and the chancellery of Prague in Bohemia (" Common German ")).

According to his letters, he was associated with the Venetian natural philosopher, Giulio Camillo, but, apart from this, he had a less active association with Italian scholars than might have been expected.

The following is the process that was used when rescuing frescos in La Fenice, a Venetian opera house, but it is the same process for similarly damaged frescoes.

In the 13th century during the Venetian occupation, the Latin Archdiocese of Durrës was founded.

Crete was under Venetian control from 1204 and became a thriving center of art with eventually a Scuola di San Luca, or organized painter's guild on Western lines.

Cretan painting was heavily patronized both by Catholics of Venetian territories and by Eastern Orthodox.

Francesco, in his capacity of Captain General of the Venetian armies, was often required to go to Venice for conferences which left Isabella in Mantua on her own at La Reggia the ancient palace which was the family seat of the Gonzagas.