Music Colloquium Series: Adam Gilbert (USC)
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📅 Date: Friday, November 6, 2026
🕒 Start Time: 4:00 PM
📍 Location: Harkness Chapel, Classroom
👥 Who: Free | Open to the public
About The Talk:
“Hidden Symmetries and Motivic Tiling in Renaissance Song from Binchois to Bourgeois” explores previously unrecognized symmetrical and geometric patterns—such as melodic palindromes, mirror motives, and complex retrograde-inversions—in Renaissance polyphony from ca. 1400–1550, arguing that these contrapuntal devices served as foundational building blocks for the development of sixteenth-century pervasive imitation and later melodic traditions.
🕒 Start Time: 4:00 PM
📍 Location: Harkness Chapel, Classroom
👥 Who: Free | Open to the public
About The Talk:
“Hidden Symmetries and Motivic Tiling in Renaissance Song from Binchois to Bourgeois” explores previously unrecognized symmetrical and geometric patterns—such as melodic palindromes, mirror motives, and complex retrograde-inversions—in Renaissance polyphony from ca. 1400–1550, arguing that these contrapuntal devices served as foundational building blocks for the development of sixteenth-century pervasive imitation and later melodic traditions.
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Where is it happening?
Harkness Chapel at CWRU, 11200 Bellflower Rd,Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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Host or PublisherCWRU Department of Music
