UPCOMING COURSES
Spring 2021 Online
Explore medieval notation, melodic improvisation and ornamentation, and singing and musical instruments within specific contexts, repertoires and music sources.
Starts March 1, 2021
Medieval Music Notation
Modal Notation
Explore modal notation, the key to the music of the School of Notre Dame, through the study of treaties, musical sources, and genres that record the practice, and learn to transcribe it, sight read it, and perform directly from original sources.
Franconian Notation
Learn to read Franconian notation directly from the original sources following the instructions given by Franco of Cologne and other medieval writers. This opens the door to monophonic and polyphonic repertoires of the 13th and 14th centuries.
Repertoire & Performance
Melodic Improvisation (Vocal and Instrumental)
Learn how to improvise vocal and instrumental preludes, interludes, postludes, and full melodies following medieval musical and rhetorical compositional techniques, melodic modal practice, and performance conventions.
Melodic Ornamentation
Learn how to ornament a medieval vocal or instrumental melody utilizing pitch inflection, repercussive and tremulous sounds, passing and neighboring tones, and pitch and melodic substitution and transposition as it is indicated in medieval music sources.
Voice & Musical Instruments in Context
These courses will help you develop a historically-informed vocal or instrumental playing technique, realise and use appropriate medieval performance conventions, and build a relevant performance repertoire.
Medieval Singing
The Vocal Art of the Monophonic Conductus at the Peak of the Notre Dame Phenomenon
Study Philippe le Chancelier’s songs while developing an advanced vocal technique and acquiring practical tools for the understanding and performance of any medieval song repertoire.
Vielle
The Vielle and Jerome of Moravia
Strengthen your vielle technique while studying the tunings, repertoires, and performance practice precepts (ornamentation, phrasing, rhythm) given by Jerome of Moravia in his Tractatus de music (c. 1280).
Harp
The Harp and Anglo-Norman Repertoire
Develop a varied playing style on the medieval harp while exploring the fascinating sounds of the Anglo-Norman repertoire.
Citole/Gittern/Psaltery
The Citole/Gittern/Psaltery and the Clerical Music Repertoire
Strengthen your citole or psaltery technique and performance practice while exploring a collection of clerical compositions (Latin songs and instrumental pieces) associated to those instruments in medieval literature and art.
Portative Organ
Discovering the Portative Organ (Beginner)
Learn the basics of portative organ technique and performance practice while immersing yourself in the world of medieval music and its repertoires.
Organ Performance Practice in the Medieval Clerical Universe (Advanced)
Build up your organ and portative organ performance practice technique while studying the repertoires that are most linked to the use of the organ and the portative organ in the Medieval clerical world.
Bagpipe/Pipe & Tabor
Bagpipe/Pipe & Tabor: Instrumental Dances for Wind Instruments
Advance your bagpipe (musa) or Pipe and Tabor playing technique while reconstructing a collection of pieces for these instruments based on the pastourelle, dance song, and instrumental music repertoires connected to them in medieval sources.
Frame Drums & Percussion
Frame Drums and Percussion (Beginner)
Learn to play round and square frame drums in medieval style by studying strokes and techniques recorded in medieval sources. You will also discover how to apply medieval rhythmic modes and their ornamentation to the accompany of vocal and instrumental pieces.
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