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Concert in Special Collections, December 1 at 4:30 p.m.

Posted 11/22/2011

MADISON, Wis. - The Mellon Workshop on Science & Print Culture presents "Kircher's Rome: Music in the 17th-century Collegio Romano" as performed by Eliza's Toyes on Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 4:30 pm, Special Collections, 9th floor of Memorial Library.

This program reflects vocal and instrumental music one might have heard in the Society of Jesus' college in seventeenth-century Rome. Professor of mathematics at the Collegio Romano and polymath, Athanasius Kircher mentioned these composers in his Musurgia Universalis (1650), a monumental encyclopedia of musical history, theory, and practice. The concert takes place in the exhibit area of Special Collections on the 9th floor of Memorial Library, where the current exhibit, "Jesuits and the Construction of Knowledge, 1540-1773," highlights (among other topics) Jesuit interest in musical theory and practice and includes a copy of Kircher's Musurgia (1650).

Program:
Ecce sic benedicetur by Christóbal Morales (1500-1553)
Dunque con stile by Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (1580-1651)
In lectulo meo per noctes from Kircher's Musurgia Universalis (1650)
Historia di Jephte by Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674)

Performers:
Katherine Peck, soprano
Chelsie Propst, soprano
Sandy Erickson, alto/recorder
Steve Johnson, tenor
Ben Li, baritone
Jerry Hui, bass/recorder
Doug Towne, theorbo
Theresa Koenig, dulcian/bassoon
Andrea Kleesattel, cello
with faculty guest Paul Rowe, baritone

For more information about Eliza's Toyes, see <http://www.toyes.info/>.
For location and directions, see <http://specialcollections.library.wisc.edu/location.html>.

This program is part of the A.W. Mellon Interdisciplinary Workshops in the Humanities, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison with support from the A.W. Mellon Foundation. Cosponsored by the School of Music, UW-Madison.


 



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