EX. 18-12 Jacobus Gallus, St. John Passion, tertia pars, mm. 1–7, high voices only“CONCERTED” MUSIC
The polychoral style and the Counter Reformation attitudes associated with it reached their pinnacle in
Venice, the city of its birth, at the hands of two musicians from the same family, both of whom served as
organists at St. Mark’s under Zarlino. Andrea Gabrieli (ca. 1532–85) competed successfully, after several