Music Work ( Gabrieli )

• Frequent use of antiphonal exchange bars 37 - 40

• Old instruments (Cornett and sackbut)

• Continuo still not a prominent feature no real sense of solo and accompaniment.

• The use of modes

• Suspensions used to create dissonance

• Predominantly conjunct motion in the melody

Narrow range the top part only spans a minor tenth

Bar 4 tierce di Picardie, renaissance composers rarely ended a phrase on a minor third.