12/1/2025
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Eastern

Online Event

We will explore music contained in the Llibre Vermell - aka the “Red Book of Montserrat”. This is a 14th century source, now bound in a red cover, associated with the shrine on the top of the mountain Montserrat near Barcelona in the Catalan-speaking part of Spain. Ten compositions survive, from monophonic songs accompanying round dances, to devotional prayers, to short rounds. The music was apparently specifically compiled to serve as music deemed appropriate to be sung by the pilgrims as can be gathered from the following paragraph, preceding the second piece:

Because sometimes pilgrims keeping vigil in the church of the Blessed Virgin of Montserrat want to sing and dance - and similarly on the square during daytime – and since it is not appropriate to sing there anything else than honourable and pious songs, above and below some have been written. They should be used neatly and frugally in order not to disturb those who persevere in prayers and pious contemplations, things all people who keep vigil should concentrate on and piously apply themselves to.

Setting: Live Virtual
https://hprecorder.org/join/application/online-seminars/

Donna Messer
(phone: (732) 828-7421)

Join the Highland Park Recorder Society for a very exciting year of online Seminars in Early Music Performance. We will learn from distinguished professors, musicologists, and leaders in the early music field, – Professors Adam Gilbert, Ph.D of USC in CA, Rainer Beckmann, Annette Bauer, Ph.D. from Germany and Montreal, Lewis Baratz, Ph.D. of PA, and Héloise Degrugillier, Ph.D. They are joining us from many parts of the country and Canada to lead us in exploring music from the 14th to 18th centuries.

Each of the seminars for 2026 include an historical lecture and an opportunity to play music that is sent in advance to all who register. Seminars are priced at $25 each. The Zoom sessions open at 7:15 PM EST for a meet and greet, and the instruction will begin at 7:30 PM EST.

HPRS Membership required for all Participants except for first-time attendees. For 2026 the membership is $30.

• https://hprecorder.org/events/2026-online-seminars/

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