Education
Research- Adam Gilbert researches and publishes articles on various 15th century music topics. Here is his discussion of the Leuven Chansonnier for the Alamire TV (the first Leuven segment): https://www.alamirefoundation.org/nl/output/alamire-tv/​​​​​​​
Here is a list of publications:
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Gilbert, Adam Knight. “Singing and Visualizing Solmization in Musical Performance and Pedagogy (ca. 1400-1521).” In Early Music Pedagogy Then and Now: From the Classical Antiquity to the Renaissance, Musica Incarnata, vol. 3, edited by Marcello Mazzetti and Livio Ticli, Turnhout: Brepols, Forthcoming 2025.
https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503615660-1
Gilbert, Adam Knight. “Echoes of Sacred Song at San Gabriel Mission.” Southern California Quarterly 106, no. 1 (2024): 177–207.
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/443/article/922202/pdf
Gilbert, Adam Knight. “Concealment Revealed: Sound and Symbol in Ockeghem’s Missa Quinti toni and Missa Prolationum.” In Explorations in Music and Esotericism, edited by Marjorie Roth, and Leonard George, 101–24. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2023.
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781805430506-008/html?lang=en
Bregman, Adam and Adam Gilbert. “The Music and Dances of Brussels, KBR, Ms. 9085.” In Margaret of Austria’s basse danse Manuscript - Study, edited by Grantley McDonald, 17-88 and 270-384. Antwerp: Davidsfonds Uitgeverij, 2022.
Gilbert, Adam. “The Shawm and the Alta Ensemble during the ‘Slide Trumpet Years’.” Basler Beiträge zur historischen Musikpraxis (2021): 1–36.
Gilbert, Adam. “Songs that Know Each Other in the Leuven Chansonnier.” Journal of the Alamire Foundation 12, no. 2 (2020): 231–61.
https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/pdf/10.1484/J.JAF.5.121941
Gilbert, Adam Knight. “Iuxta artem conficiendi: Solmization and Counterpoint ca. 1500.” Historical Performance 2 (2019): 25–54.
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/811573/pdf
Gilbert, Adam. “Henricus Isaac’s Lost Missa Je ne fay plus Found?” Journal of the Alamire Foundation 6/2 (2014): 187–217.
https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/pdf/10.1484/J.JAF.5.102765
Gilbert, Adam. “Reverse Engineering Fifteenth-Century Counterpoint: Es solt ein man kein mole farn and Cançon de pifari dco. el Ferrarese.” In Instruments, Ensembles, and Repertory, 1300-1600, edited by Stewart Carter, and Timothy McGee, 173–94. Brepols Pub, 2013.
https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/M.BCEEC-EB.1.100639
Gilbert, Adam. “Thundering to the Tune of Greensleeves.” In “Hands-On” Musicology: Essays in Honor of Jeffery Kite-Powell, edited by Stewart Carter, and Timothy McGee, 101–17. Ann Arbor: Steglein, 2012.
Gilbert, Adam Knight. “Ludwig Senfl’s Sancte pater divumque and his Musical Patrimony.” In The Motet around 1500: On the Relationship of Imitation and Text Treatment?, edited by Thomas Schmidt-Beste, 429–43. Turnhout: Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance Brepols, 2012.
Gilbert, Adam Knight. “Words and Music Dedans la mer de longue actente.” In Essays on Renaissance Music in Honour of David Fallows: Bon jour, bon mois, et bonne estrenne, edited by Fabrice Fitch, and Jacobijn Kiel, 207–17. Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2011.
Gilbert, Adam Knight. “Henrich Isaac, Ludwig Senfl, and a Fugal Hexachord.” In Canons and Canonic Techniques, 14th-16th Centuries: Theory, Practice, and Reception History; Proceedings of the International Conference, Leuven, 4-6 October 2005, edited by Kathelijne Schiltz and Bonnie J. Blackburn, 111–23. Leuven and Dudley: Peeters, 2007.
Gilbert, Adam Knight. “Eight Brief Rules for Composing a Si Placet Altus, ca. 1470–1510.” In A Performer’s Guide to Renaissance Music, edited by Jeffery Kite-Powell, 331–42. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2007.
Gilbert, Adam. “The Improvising Alta capella, ca. 1500: Paradigms and Procedures.” Basler Jahrbuch für historische Musikpraxis 29 (2005): 109–23.
Gilbert, Adam Knight. “Elaboration in Heinrich Isaac’s Three-Voice Mass Sections and Untexted Compositions,” diss., Case Western Reserve University, 2003.
Gilbert, Adam. “The Bagpipe: Superexcellens omnia instrumenta.” In Performer’s Guide to Medieval Music, edited by Ross Duffin, 399–411. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.
Adam Gilbert, Rotem Gilbert, and Jason Yoshida rotate directing the USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia, one of the ensembles of the USC Early Music Program. Watch previous concerts:

USC Baroque Sinfonia, 2023-2024
Adam Gilbert directs the San Francisco Early Music Society Med/ Red workshop each summer (sfems.org). In Summer of 2025 Adam Gilbert, Rotem Gilbert, Adam Bregman, and Jason Yoshida will be on faculty. The workshop will take place July 13-19, 2025 in Berkeley, CA.

Rotem Gilbert has been teaching in the Conservatório UFMG and performing with local early music musicians at the Festival América Barroca in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The next Festival América Barroca will be offered in August 2025.

Ciaramella offers demonstrations and classes for students of all ages.
