5/4/2026
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Eastern

Online Event

Presented by Adam Gilbert

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.  In Part 2 we will explore these devices in the songs of Binchois and anonymous composers, and ask ourselves whether their use of these devices can lead to our identifying the origins of the anonymous composers.

All are welcome! SATB Recorders, A=440hz

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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