10/20/2025
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Eastern

Online Event

The Highland Park Recorder Society’s online Seminar Series in Early Music Performance continues on Monday, October 20, 2025, 7:30 P.M. Eastern Time. We are honored and privileged to present Adam Knight Gilbert, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Early Music Program and Chair of Musicology at University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. For more on his outstanding bio, visit https://hprecorder.org/artists/gilbert-adam/.

He will present A Century of Symmetry and Song (1430-1530) Part 1.

This class will trace a tradition of composers crafting songs from symmetrical patterns, including numerical symmetries in numbers of pitches, melodic symmetries like palindromes and passages that are identical to their own retrograde inversion, contrapuntal symmetries in which a voice is consonant against its own retrograde or retrograde inversion, and even magic squares in which all four permutations of a melody can be played simultaneously to make consonant counterpoint. These devices are hidden in lovely songs and compositions by three generations of composers from Gilles Binchois to Johannes, Ockeghem, Josquin Deprez, and Antoine Brumel.

All are welcome! SATB Recorders, A=440hz

Setting: Live Virtual
https://hprecorder.org/events/2026-online-seminars/

Donna Messer
(phone: 7328287421)

The seminars are $25 each. Annual membership is $30. Register by Oct. 17 to receive your Zoom link, and earlier to get your music in advance. To register, visit https://hprecorder.org/events/2026-online-seminars/ Can’t wait to see you on October 20! Sincerely, Donna Messer

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