Joanna Blendulf leads a program of pieces from the Odhecaton:
“The Harmonice Musices Odhecaton (One Hundred Songs of Harmonic Music, also known simply as the Odhecaton) was an anthology of polyphonic secular songs published by Ottaviano Petrucci in 1501 in Venice. It was the first book of polyphonic music ever to be printed using movable type. (Printing plainchant with movable type had been possible since the 1470s.) The Odhecaton was hugely influential both in publishing in general and in dissemination of the Franco-Flemish musical style.”
The repertoire includes two tutti motets, Crux triumphans by Loyset Compere and Gaspar van Weerbeke’s “Mater digna Dei.”