Songs and their Offspring
When:
Saturday, Feb 23, 2019 7:00p -
8:30p
Saturday, Feb 23, 2019 7:00p -
8:30p
Where:
Cambridge Friends Meeting House
5 Longfellow Park
Cambridge, MA 02138
Admission:
$25/15
Categories:
< 21, Music, Performing Arts
Event website:
www.convivium.org
From the earliest improvised harmonizations around Gregorian melodies, composers and performers have taken familiar tunes as points of departure in the creation of polyphonic music. This use of tunes, sacred and secular alike, is part of the broader tradition of the reuse and "improvement" of existing musical material, a practice that has sometimes seemed at odds with the more modern idealization of individuality in artistic expression. Songs and their Offspring highlights the variety of stylistic sensibilities present in pieces that nonetheless sprang from this common technique.
Join us at Songs and their Offspring and hear how composers from Guillaume DuFay to Orlande de Lassus to Josquin des Prez repurposed songs and transformed sometimes simple melodies into the rich polyphony we associate with the Renaissance.
All are welcome to a reception following the concert.
