This archive contains three files:  this READ.ME, RECER5O.MTS and RECER5O.MID.
For those of you having the Atari ST version of Master Tracks Pro, the .MTS 
file will present the piece in all its glory, with ritards and full musical
expression.  The .MID file, of course, is just a plain vanilla type 1 Midi
file.  I recommend rhapsodic slowing of the music at the end (all the rushing
sixteenth notes).  I also recommend a massive pipe-organ patch be used, 
preferably with cathedral settings for the delay, if any.  This piece is 
glorious!  I donate it to the public domain, but (not that my ego is big)
please give me credit if you use it in a public setting.

About the piece itself:

This is the Ricercare Quinto (5o) by Giovanni Gabrieli.  Gabrieli and his
father Andrea were famous composers in Venice during the 16th century 
(Giovanni's dates:  1557-1612).  The term "Recercare" comes from the same
source as our word "research".  The recercare (or ricercar, as it is sometimes
spelled) was the antecedent of the fugue, so masterfully brought to perfection
by J.S. Bach.  As in a fugue, the theme is presented first by one voice, then
by the others, imitatively.  The theme in this work is quite long:  6« mss.
Most of Gabrieli's ricercare themes take this arch-shaped contour, giving the
music a soaring, exalted quality.
Publisher:  Edition Ricordi #2598, ppg. 18-21.