Another pastiche developed by Echols was Romance of the Rose which he described as "a 15th-century music drama". The work was intended to simulate a 15th-century Burgundian court masque. Splicing together music compositions from the 14th and 15th centuries by multiple composers containing a 'rose theme', the work was constructed to form a narrative based on the medieval Old French epic poem Roman de la Rose. Several new poems were written to serve as text to early music written by composers like Binchois, Antoine Busnois, John Dowland, Du Fay, and Hayne van Ghizeghem among others. This opera premiered at the Mannes College of Music in 1988 and was subsequently revived in New York following Echols death in 1994.
