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Gloria à 12 (1597)
Staff Notation • Sacred, Mass Settings
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3 editions of this piece
Different typesettings and voicings of the same work. This page shows the main edition; the others are below.
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Gloria à 12 (1597) by Giovanni Gabrieli — Lyrics
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.
Laudamus te. Benedicimus te.
Adoramus te. Glorificamus te.
Gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam.
Domine Deus, Rex caelestis, Deus Pater omnipotens.
Domine Fili unigenite, Iesu Christe.
Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris.
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About Gloria à 12 (1597)
Giovanni Gabrieli’s Gloria à 12, composed in 1597, sets the familiar Latin text of the Mass Ordinary’s Gloria. Its opening lines, 'Glory to God in the highest' and 'peace on earth to people of good will,' immediately establish the piece’s jubilant and reverent spirit. The composer then moves through the text’s praise, adoration, and supplication, culminating in the declaration of Christ’s sole divinity and the final Amen. Scored for twelve voices (SATB.SATB.SATB), this work offers a grand and sonorous setting of the Mass text, suitable for a powerful liturgical or concert performance.
