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See also:GABRIELI, GIOVANNI (1557-1612?) , See also:Italian musical composer, was See also:born at See also:Venice in 1557, and was a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of his See also:uncle See also:Andrea, a distinguished musician of the contrapuntal school and organist of St See also:Mark's. He succeeded Claudio Merulo as first organist of the Same See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church in 1585, and died at Venice either in 1612 or 1613. He was remarkable for his compositions for several choirs,. See also:writing frequently for 12 or 16 voices, and is important as an See also:early experimenter in See also:chromatic See also:harmony. It was probably for this See also:reason that he made a See also:special point of combining voices with See also:instruments, being thus one of the founders of choral and orchestral See also:composition. Among his pupils was Heinrich Schutz; and the church of St Mark, from the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the Gabrielis onwards down to that of See also:Lotti, became one of the most important musical See also:schools in See also:Europe.
See also Winterfeld, Johann Gabrieli and See also:seine Zeit (1834).
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