Music in the Pavilion Series
Presented by the University of Pennsylvania's Music Department, the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, and the Otto E. Albrecht Music Library.
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Music in the Pavilion: Petrarch in Renaissance Music
Piffaro, the Renaissance Band, honors the 650th anniversary of Italian poet Petrarch’s passing with a concert of Renaissance vocal and instrumental music.
Registration is required for guests outside of the Penn community and encouraged for all participants.
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Hosted by: Kislak Center
To commemorate the 650th anniversary of Petrarch's death and on the occasion of the acquisition by the Penn Libraries of a fifteenth-century manuscript, including his Canzoniere and Trionfi, we pay homage to the Italian poet with a concert of Renaissance vocal and instrumental music based on those two works. Music by Luca Marenzio, Cipriano de Rore, Orlando di Lasso, Bartolomeo Tromboncino, and others.
Performed by Piffaro, The Renaissance Band and Penn Collegium Musicum directed by Meg Bragle.
Schedule
Pre-concert talk at 6:15 pm by Mauro Calcagno, Priscilla Herreid, and Grant Herreid. Concert begins at 7:00 pm.
A related symposium, held in the afternoon, will offer an in-depth look at the recently-acquired manuscript of Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta and Triumphi.
About the Ensemble
Piffaro delights audiences with highly polished recreations of the rustic music of the peasantry and the elegant sounds of the official wind bands of the late Medieval and Renaissance periods.
Featured image: Hoffer Photography, Piffaro the Renaissance Band publicity photograph
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