Polychoral writing may have been over a century old in Venice and northern Italy by the time began his musical career. As he learned the style from his Venetian uncle and from, his teacher in Munich, the music tends to proceed in polychoral echoes; two or more choirs reiterate similar material in powerful, blocklike alternations. Mcnp Visual Editor. With his 1597 publication the Sacrae Symphoniae, however, seems to be moving in a different direction, one less involved in slavish devotion to repeated motives, but more involved in musical dialogue between the choirs. This dialogue is evidenced even in his simpler compositions, such as the relatively modest Sonata 'Pian e forte' from the 1597 Sacrae Symphoniae collection. Though its forces (only eight voices), length, and melodic development remain fairly circumspect, both his use of specified instrumentation (perhaps for the first time in history) and his pioneering use of dynamic markings show an overall concern for interaction between the choirs. Was not, as once thought, the inventor of instrumental dynamics in this piece. Iron Man 3 Vostfr Uptobox Films. Had used similar instructions in a 1596 'echo' canzona, and of Brescia instructed an instrumental player to 'play very softly' in a transcription from much earlier in the sixteenth century.