Early music courses in and around East Anglia


Benslow Music Trust

Early Music courses

 

Title

Dates

Tutor(s)

Benslow Baroque Chamber Music at A=440

Consorting Viols
Handel in Edgware – Two Chandos Anthems

9–12 August

26–28 November
10–12 December

Julian Perkins, Henrik Persson,
Joel Raymond
Alison Crum, Roy Marks
Murray Stewart, Catherine Martin

 

Benslow Music Trust, Little Benslow Hills, Benslow Lane, Hitchin, Herts SG4 9RB

Tel: 01462 459 446 (9am-5pm weekdays)  Email: info@benslow.org  Website: www.benslow.org

Beauchamp House Early Music Week

25 – 31 July 2010

Lassus and the Gabrielis

Directed by Philip Thorby and Alan Lumsden
Continuo Tutor: Clifford Bartlett
Location: Beauchamp House, Churcham, Gloucestershire.
Residential - camping, caravanning or B&B
Fee: £410

CANTO/CONCERTI/DI ANDREA / ET DI GIO/GABRIELI / ET DI GIO /GABRIELI / ORGANISTI /

DELLA SERENISS.SIG.DI VENETIA. / Continenti Musica DI CHIESA, Madrigali / & altro, per

voci, & stromenti Musicali; DI CHIESA, Madrigali, / & altro, per voci, & stromenti Musicali;

à 6.7.8.10.12. & 16. / Nouamente con ogni diligentia dati in luce. / LIBRO PRIMO EWT

SECONDO. / CON PRIVILEGIO. / IN VENETIA. / Appresso Andelo Gardano. 1587

 

This collection, painstakingly put together by Giovanni the year after his uncle’s death, contains a splendid mixture of sacred and secular works. Just as Andrea is sometimes overshadowed by his nephew, his secular music is less often performed than his sacred works and we hope to redress the balance on both counts. (The likelihood is that 2015

will be devoted to Giovanni on the 400th anniversary of the publication of his Sacrae Sinfoniae.) As Andrea was so strongly influenced by his friend Lassus it will be interesting to compare works from Lassus’ Sacrae Cantiones of 1562 with Andrea’s Sacrae Cantiones of 1565 which were obviously modelled on the Lassus set and marked a significant change in style.

 

Andrea was in great demand as a composer of ceremonial music. Felice d’Adria, a madrigal in the style of Lassus, was written for the visit of the Archduke Karl of Corinthia in 1565. For the visit to Venice in 1574 of the new French king, Henry III, Andrea wrote two madrigals, probably sung on the floating stage in front of Cà Foscari: Hor che nel suo bel seno, an 8 part piece, and a splendid 12 part piece Ecco Vinegia bella in which the King is celebrated as Hercules who is returning to his sister Vinegia (Venice). One of the 1587 madrigals has the Prima parte by Andrea and the Seconda parte by Giovanni and a number are marked per cantar et sonar or aria da sonar etc. so we will have flexibility with scoring and, with about 80 motets by Giovanni in the Beauchamp Press catalogue, we will be unable to resist comparing Andrea and Giovanni where both have set eg. Psalm 34.

 

Course leaflet (PDF, 139KB) with details of location, accommodation, tutors, fees, timetable, etc.

Download Application Form

Read Clifford Bartlett’s introduction to the course


A message from Selene Mills about the
Cambridge Early Music Summer Schools 2010:

Dear Friends,

 

I am delighted to tell you that the information on our 2010 summer schools is available on the CEM website: www.CambridgeEarlyMusic.org. We will be revelling in the work of Bach and his contemporaries, 1-8 August, and then in the music of Renaissance Spain, 8-14 August. We would be very happy to welcome you back to Cambridge for the Baroque or Renaissance Music week - or maybe even both! You can apply online, or wait until we send out the details by post early in the new year.

 

If you are able to help us publicise the courses by putting leaflets into your local library / music school / concert hall, please tell me how many copies you would like to receive.

 

Selene Mills, Administrator, Cambridge Early Music, Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ

 

info@CambridgeEarlyMusic.org           www.CambridgeEarlyMusic.org

 

Tel: +44 (0) 1223 847330        Fax: +44 (0) 1223 701914

 


NORVIS XL

31 July – 7 August 2010
 
Northumbrian Recorder and Viol School, College of St. Hild and St. Bede, Durham City.

Recorders, viols, singing, harpsichord, lute, Baroque strings, etc.  


Contact: Jane Beeson 01652 678 230       enquiries@norvis.org.uk      www.norvis.org.uk       reviews

 


Irish Recorder and Viol Course

14 – 21 August 2010

An Grianán, Termonfechin, Ireland

 

Tutors: Ibi Aziz, Marion Doherty, Pamela Flanagan, Emma Murphy, Marion Scott, Eileen Silcocks,
             Philip Thorby

 

A course designed for players of recorders, viols and other early instruments, covering a wide repertoire from the 15th to the 21st centuries.  Sessions include one-to-a-part groups, lectures, technique classes, consort songs, trio sonatas, choir, large and small ensembles.

 

Further information from:

Mrs. Patricia Flanagan, 110 Kincora Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin 3, Ireland

Tel: 00 353 (0) 1 8337869

info@irishrecorderandviolcourse.org

www.irishrecorderandviolcourse.org

 


NONSUCH HISTORICAL DANCE & MUSIC COURSE

20 – 24 August 2010
Ashville College, Green Lane, Harrogate, North Yorkshire HG2 9JP

Tutors:
DANCE - Darren Royston (Artistic Director)

MUSIC - Ralph Woodward (Historical Music Director), William Summers (Director), Ben Sansom (leader)

Dancers will be instructed in the movement and etiquette of each period of history,

learning the style of dance fashionable at the Royal Courts in Europe.

Musicians will be tutored in dance music of each style, becoming an instrumental consort to

accompany the dancers for evenings of historical social dance.

Full details here


The Lute Society Annual Residential Weekend
For lutes, viols, voices and one or two flutes or recorders

20 – 22 August 2010
Christ Church, Oxford

Tutors: Jacob Heringman, Jakob Lindberg, (lute) Stewart McCoy (ensemble playing), Jeni Melia (lute song and partsong), Ian Harwood (mixed consorts), and Sarah Groser (viol/viol consort).

Focus will be music from the time of Matthew Holmes, praecentor at
Christ Church in the 1590s.

You can stay in college (half board, including breakfast in the magnificent great hall) or be a non-resident if you prefer (cheaper of course) if you 'commute' or stay in the town.  

Please email Chris Goodwin at Lutesoc <AT> aol.com for an application form.


Michael Procter's Cambridge Choral Study Weekend

17 – 19 September 2010
Gonville and
Caius College, Cambridge

Full details here            
Latest information for 2010
www.Michael-Procter.com

 


Easter Early Music Course 2011
12 – 19 April 2011  
St George's School, Ascot.

Philip Thorby, Eileen Silcocks, Marion Scott, Emma Murphy, Alison Kinder, David Hatcher, Jane Francis,
Andrew Collis. 

For players of recorders and viols.  Small consort groups plus ensembles, chamber groups and
multi-choir works. 

Contact Geri Coop info@easterearlymusiccourse.org.uk, www.easterearlymusiccourse.org.uk 
07971 388509.

 



Updated 10/06/2010. Please contact the  EEMF committee with comments