Tag: Echoes of the Renaissance

  • Echoes of the Renaissance Photos

    Echoes of the Renaissance Photos

  • Echoes of the Renaissance — Program Notes

    Echoes of the Renaissance — Program Notes

    In his magisterial The Rise of European Music, 1380–1500, Reinhard Strohm traces the development and dissemination of complex styles of music written with multiple voice parts using measured (‘mensural’) notation that enabled precise rhythmic coordination of the voices. By the middle of the fifteenth century the most notable centers for the production of this polyphonic…

  • Ockeghem Missa Mimi

    Ockeghem Missa Mimi

    Cappella Romana will perform the Missa Mimi by Johannes Ockeghem alongside excerpts from The Divine Liturgy by Tikey Zes in this weekend’s “Echoes of the Renaissance” concerts. Here, Dr. Tikey Zes conducts the Berkeley Chamber Singers in the Ockeghem Missa Mimi in a 1964 recording, likely the first recording ever made of this remarkable work.…