From San Marco Quarter

Instrumentation: Brass Band
Duration: 15’00 min.
Grade: 5

Price Digital Score : € 29,-
Price Complete Digital Set: € 99,-

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Program Notes:
From San Marco Quarter is a musical tribute to the Venetian Renaissance and Baroque composers and refers to the diverse styles in which they wrote their compositions. The title of the work refers to the oldest neighborhood or quarter of Venice, San Marco. Besides the famous St. Mark’s Basilica, this district also housed many other churches, palaces and theaters for which all these composers once composed their music. Music was also widely composed and practiced in the streets and homes of ordinary citizens.
The numerous composers and musicians who lived and worked in this district provided not only a huge range of sacred and official music, but also secular music. Joop van Dijk put himself in the shoes of the composers of the time, as it were. Names like Pergolesi, Gabrieli, Monteverdi and Vivaldi are better known and perhaps easier to recognize. But other ‘Venetian’ composers such as Willaert, Vecchi, Steffani, Caresana, Gastoldi, De Rore, Striggio and Jomelli are also featured in the work. Naturally, the work also bears the signature of the composer himself, who, despite the different style periods and techniques, has forged it into a homogeneous whole.
From San Marco Quarter was commissioned by the Netherlands Brass Band Championships Foundation for the 1st Division of the Dutch Brass Band Championships in 2020. However, these championships were postponed for a year due to the COVID-19 virus. On October 30, 2021, From San Marco Quarter premiered during the 40th Dutch Brass Band Championships in Muziekcentrum TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht.