Doors open at 7 PM. Seats are held for registrants until 7:20 PM only.
A concert of seventeenth-century music by Salamone Rossi, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Biagio Marini, Tarquinio Merula, and other Italian composers.
The evening includes remarks by harpsichordist Rebecca Cypess, author of Curious and Modern Inventions: Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo's Italy, which explores how both musical and scientific instruments served as vehicles of exploration and innovation.
Rebecca Cypess, harpsichord
Dongmyung Ahn, violin
Nina Stern, recorder
Charles Weaver, theorbo
Sonata sopra la Monica
From Sonate sinfonie canzoni, passemezzi, balletti, correnti, gagliarde, & ritornelli (1626)
Biagio Marini (1594–1663)
Sonata in dialogo detta la Viena
From Il terzo libro de varie sonate, sinfonie, gagliarde, brandi, e corrente (1613?)
Salamone Rossi (ca. 1570–1630)
Sonata seconda
From Sonate A 1 2. 3. per il Violino, o Cornetto, Fagotto, Chitarone, Violoncino o simile altro istromento (1641)
Giovanni Battista Fontana (1589–1630)
Lusinghevole passeggio
From Capricci (1622)
Bellerofonte Castaldi(1580–1649)
Sonata seconda a sopran solo
From Sonate concertate in stil moderno, libro secondo (1629)
Dario Castello (1602–1630)
Toccata settima
From Toccate e partite…libro primo (1615)
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643)
Capriccio sopra la Girolmeta
From Fiori musicali (1635)
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Brando terzo
Brando quarto
From Libro quarto de varie sonate (1636)
Giovanni Battista Buonamente (ca. 1595–1642)
Sonata quarta a 2 soprani
From Sonate concertate in stil moderno, libro secondo (1629)
Dario Castello
Ciaccona
From Canzoni overo sonate concertate per chiesa e camera (1637)
Tarquinio Merula (1594/5–1665)
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