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Recorder and Viol Workshop Classes

Class Choices – Vicki Boeckman

Master Class
Participants are encouraged to prepare one or two movements of any baroque solo or trio sonata. Bass recorder players this is an excellent opportunity to learn how to be a continuo player! We will work on performance practices and expressiveness in baroque music. For recorder, viol and keyboard players. (Please bring copies of the score so that others can follow along).

Chaconnes and Grounds and Follias, oh my!
What do Henry Purcell and Matthias Maute have in common? Come to this class and find out! One thing was their flair, ease and creativity in writing innovative melodies over recurring bass patterns. We will be playing 3, 4 and 6 part works by these gifted composers, who lived several centuries apart.

Music of the great J.S. Bach
We will work on Preludes, Fugues and Canzonas by the great German composer, tastefully transcribed for recorder quartet, quintet and sextet. Recorder and viol players upper intermediate and up.

Class Choices – Pia Brinch Jensen

Saturday Morning Soundpainting (for all attendees)
Soundpainting is a live composing sign language created by New York composer Walter Thompson. This class will be a short introduction to the basic signs of Soundpainting. Soundpainting is composing, conducting, and structured, non-threatening improvisation. Fun is guaranteed!! Soundpainting is a tutti class intended for everyone. All instruments or voices. All levels. For more info on the subject, you can go to soundpainting.com

John Dowland - Music for Kings, Queens and noblemen.
Beautiful melodies and lively rhythms written by the famous English lute player and composer John Dowland. We will be playing several of his works, among them of course “The King of Denmark’s Gaillard”, which Dowland wrote for the notorious King Christian IV while working for him as a court musician. All levels of recorders and viols welcome.

From Russia with Love - Russian traditionals arranged by Andrew Charlton.
Come and enjoy the expressive simplicity of Russian traditional songs wonderfully arranged for recorder quartet by Andrew Charlton. Intermediate – upper intermediate recorder players.

Tango time
SomeONE said it takes TWO to tango, but these THREE tangos must be played by at least FOUR players. Well written and “fun-to play” tangos for recorder quartet composed or arranged by B. Hagwall, G. Schwertbergen and P. Leenhouts. Upper intermediate – advanced recorder players.

Class Choices: Gertie Johnsson

King Christian the IV´s Dance Orchestra
Royal Renaissance Music from the Danish Court by contemporaries of JohnDowland; Jacob Ørn, Mogens Pedersøn o.a. Intermediate recorders and viols .

Scandinavian Wood
Enchanting music from Denmark, Norway and Sweden by Carl Nielsen, Edvard Grieg, and C. M. Bellman will be used as a backdrop for a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. Recorders Intermediate and up.

Bizarre and beautiful notes, sounds and rhythms from the 14th century.
Together we will wander and get lost in works by Dufay, Hasprois and Solage., but all are guaranteed a safe return, unscathed and richer from the musical experience. Recorders and viols upper intermediate to advanced.

Class Choices: Mary Springfels - Viols

Who's afraid of scales! Technique for viols; all levels welcome.

Treasures from Spanish and Portuguese Songbooks. for recorders and viols. UI

Ferrara and Mantua: Collaborations between Tasso, Guarini, Wert, Marezio and Monteverdi.  
For singers, recorders, viols. UI to advanced.

Class Choices: Dale Taylor

Fine Tuning the Renaissance Consort. 
This class will explore how to get great intonation by using Just Intonation in Renaissance music.

Class Choices: Carol Redman

Baroque Nuts and Bolts for Modern Flutists @ 2:00pm Sunday - NMSU Music Center classroom

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