Tesserae presents a program that explores the influence of the new Italian instrumental styles on Austrian and southern German music in the seventeenth century. The title is borrowed from a famous collection of Italian madrigals published in England, and can be taken to refer, in a general sense, to...

The stylus phantasticus (the fantastic style) was a 17th-century name given to the instrumental music of the early Italian Baroque, deemed to be wild, bizarre, improvisatory—and, of course, new. At the same time, this “new” style was largely grounded in older practice: the improvisation of dim...

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. Renowned early music director and lutenist Stephen Stubbs directs Tesserae Baroque in a program of music from Latin America and Spain. Performed in the stunning grounds of the Villa del Sol D'Oro in Sierra Madre, this performance will feature music by Aristondo, Zumaya, Sober...