Adam Knight Gilbert
Adam Knight Gilbert
@akgilbert.bsky.social
Recorder, shawm, and bagpipe player, musicologist, Professor, Chair of Musicology, and Director of Early Music Program at University of Southern California. I research historical composition, improvisation, symbolism, and symmetries, and I like to draw.
Join us for an epic concert with Bach's Cantata "Der Herr denet an uns" (BWV 196), Concerto in F (BWV 1057), Telemann's Concerto for Viola, and some wonderful works by Schein, Vierdanck, J.C. Bach, and Servaes de Koninck.
April 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Southern Californians, you have two chances to join us and guests from Sibelius Academy, Helsinki for a concert of Mission Music from the Americas! March 7th is free but RSVP required: uscthorntonearlymusicprogram.cmail20.com/t/j-l-wlktru... March 9th is free, open to the public, families welcome!
February 24, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Join us today for an online presentation of new Chinese music based on cultural artifacts. Register here: usc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
February 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Morning sketch:
February 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Another pair of animal instruments from Organographiti (2/2). Lyra da braccia
January 31, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Another pair of animal instruments from Organographiti (1/2). Viola da gamba
January 31, 2025 at 4:31 AM
The second animal instrument I drew for "Organographiti", the Porcupipes:
January 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A loooong time ago, I started a series of animal and other odd musical instruments called "Organographiti". Today is a pair (re-posted from earlier). First, the Stagpipes:
January 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Join us in LA this coming Friday, Jan. 31, 2025
USC Musicology Forum Lecture
Friday, January 31, 2025 1:00 PM
USC Musicology Forum Lecture
Anna Zayaruznaya (Yale University)
“Early Modern Music and Drugs”
Herklotz Seminar Room, Doheny Music Library
#earlymodernstudies
January 27, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Quick sketch after morning coffee
January 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Have been pondering a sentence about one's reach exceeding one's grasp and wondering if the translation alludes to Browning, if that is coincidental, or if Browning's poem cites an old proverb. In the meantime, the editor wrote one of my favorite paragraphs:
January 20, 2025 at 3:04 AM
First sketch of 2025, testing out etchr Lab A5 watercolor paper ("The Pefect Sketchbook") and trying to remember what pen feels like on paper.
January 20, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Majestic demon cat moment of the day
January 19, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Then again, two runners up:
January 15, 2025 at 7:08 AM
January 15, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Putting off finishing syllabus with tree sketch. Drawn with Sailor "rikyucha" ("green tea") ink on watercolor paper.
January 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
January 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
And also wishes for a good 2025 from three stragglers:
January 1, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Happy New Year from some old chimney folk:
January 1, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Origin of misquote: Fol. 2v of music ms Bologna Q16 (Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna, I-Bc Q. 16), dated 1487 by scribe, probably from the region of Naples. This glued-on inserted opening page lists incipits (index from a lectionary?) from Advent into January. Arms unknown.
December 26, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Found this old sketch while cleaning behind my bookcases, where old drawings go to die.
December 23, 2024 at 5:07 PM
An old sketch that some might find suggestive of NSFW, retrospectively titled "Box of Bad Habits":
December 20, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Nice! Another is the Chansonnier Cordiforme F-Pnm Rothschild 2973 (Chansonnier Cordiforme; Chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu), ca. 1470-77:
December 16, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Here is another old one from when I first started on the tenure track and I tell my students I still feel this way by the last week of the semester, at the latest:
December 6, 2024 at 5:29 AM
We have a concert of French Baroque Christmas coming up this Friday, Dec. 6 in Los Angeles. A healthy dose of Charpentier, Ballard, and a nice opera scene from Élizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre.
December 4, 2024 at 3:19 AM