Venetian polychoral style
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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. It represented a major stylistic shift
San Marco in the evening. The spacious, resonant interior of this building was an inspiration for the development of this musical style.
Psalmen Davids
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Psalmen Davids is a collection of sacred choral music, settings mostly of psalms in German by Heinrich Schütz, who had studied the Venetian polychoral style with Giovanni Gabrieli. Book 1 was printed
Title page of the first edition, 1619
