My Serenata in Stile Antico is suffused by seventeenth-century Italian Baroque music. The opening Ciaconna is predicated on a four-measure repeated bass line. The Siciliana in modo hypodorico that follows is an homage to Fr. Athanasius Kircher, S. J., a polymath who wrote on music theory as well as on science and archeology, and who founded what may well be one of the first museums of natural history. The third movement, Aria , is a fantasia on one of the most popular monodies of the seventeenth...

• I. Ciaconna
• II. Siciliana in modo hypodorico
• III. Aria
• IV. Canzonetta con variazioni