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10th International Course of Medieval Music: 29 July-3 August 2019

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The 10th International Course of Medieval Music will be held in Spello, from 29 July to 3 August 2019.

Organized by the Associazione Musicale Micrologus and the Centro Studi Europeo di Musica Medievale Adolfo Broegg, it has as its title:

“Cacciando per gustar”

The fourteenth century Caccia and Italian music

The main theme will be the polyphony of the Cacce, including those recently discovered, and Italian music of the fourteenth century (ballatas, madrigals and instrumental dance music).

On this occasion the book by Michele Epifani on the Cacce will be presented, with the author’s lecture: La caccia nell’Ars Nova italiana -Edizione critica e commentata dei testi e delle intonazioni (Firenze, Edizioni del Galluzzo).

There are also 2 special dance courses: HISTORICAL DANCES with Veronique Daniels and ITALIAN TRADITIONAL DANCES with Placida Staro.

The International Course of Medieval Music is divided into: 

MORNING (9.00 a.m.-1.00 p.m.)

MASTERCLASS, ORDINARY COURSES (Individual Lessons), DANCE  

AFTERNOON (3.00 p.m.-7.50 p.m.)

Workshops (including Italian Traditional Dances) and Conferences

The Course includes a final concert, on 3 August, which will be repeated at the Festival of the Middle Ages in Gubbio (end of September 2019).

MASTERCLASS

Crawford Young

Italian or French? Two Worlds in Medieval Music and Why Differences Matter

An outline of basic principles relevant to all performers, vocal and instrumental, of 14th/15th c. music. Two cultures, c. 1300-1500, with the most surviving musical manuscripts of Gothic / Humanist Europe helped to define each other’s music. Selected works: Guillaume de Machaut (ballades, including De toutes flours); Francesco Landini (ballate, including Adiu adiu dous dame); Johannes Ciconia (ballate, madrigale); Guillaume Dufay (rondeaux); MS Florence 229 (various).

ORDINARY COURSES

SINGING – Patrizia Bovi (assistant Mauro Borgioni)

WIND INSTRUMENTS ENSEMBLE/ALTA CAPPELLA – Ian Harrison

HARP (medieval and gothic) – Leah Stuttard 

LUTE AND PLUCKED INSTRUMENTS (Europe and Middle East)– Peppe Frana

WIND INSTRUMENTS (pipe and tabor, flutes, double flute and bagpipes) – Goffredo Degli Esposti

HURDY-GURDY (historical and traditional) AND SYMPHONIA – Giordano Ceccotti

BOWED INSTRUMENTS (fiddle, rebec  and lira da braccio) – Gabriele Russo

PERCUSSION and DULCIMER – Enea Sorini

HISTORICAL DANCE – Veronique Daniels

WORKSHOPS

Duration: 4 hours each workshop, divided into 3 parts.

There are more workshops at the same time and are divided: by difficulty, Beginners and Advanced; by sectors (Vocal and Instrumental or both)

Ma che bel coro! What a beautiful choir!

Choral singing (B) with Enea Sorini

Tutti a caccia! All hunting!

Medieval cacce for singers and instrumentalists (A) with Patrizia Bovi, Mauro Borgioni and Gabriele Russo

Estasi medievale  Medieval ecstasy

Sound and rhythm, from Gregorian chant to pre-polyphony (A) with Mauro Borgioni

Distesi sul Tenor Lying on the Tenor

Sound and rhythm for the polyphony (B) singers and instrumentalists, with Mauro Borgioni and Gabriele Russo

Cominciarono soavemente una danza a sonare And began to play softly a dance

The fourteenth-century istampite (A) with Peppe Frana and Leah Stuttard

Immaginare la musica Imagine the music

Musical reconstructions from medieval iconography, for singers and instrumentalists (B and A) with Goffredo Degli Esposti

Sai improvvisare sui modi medievali? Can you improvise on medieval ways?

Medieval improvisation for singers and instrumentalists (B and A) with Peppe Frana and Patrizia Bovi

Suonar danzando Play dancing

for singers and instrumentalists and dancers (B and A) with Placida Staro.

The movement as a formant of sound. With the use of different types of folk dance, the metric-rhythmical stereotypes of the processional forms are experimented and then translated into the instrument. This provides an approach to written sources filtered by the use of a gestural competence in search of the sonority to move and “move” used by tradition.

Repetita iuvant…cum Magistro

Individual Coaching  for instrumentalists and singers (A) who have prepared a piece and want coaching. With Crawford Young

Pifferi, trombette e tamburi; ma dove vanno? Bagpipes, trumpets and drums: but where are they going?

Music for medieval processions (B and A) with Ian Harrison, Goffredo Degli Esposti, Enea Sorini and Gabriele Russo

Falla con misuras Play it on time

Improvisation on the Tenor of the 15° century bassedances (A) with Crawford Young and Leah Stuttard

1-3 AUGUST

Dancing the sound: experiences from Italian traditions

A repertoire of traditional Apennine dance: the Bolognese Apennines.                                                                                                  For dancers and musicians (B and A) with Placida Staro.            Duration: 8 hours, divided into 3 parts.                                              Ideal continuation of 2018’s course (the childhood repertoires shared on the national territory), this course intends to use the repertoire of the Bolognese Apennines  (manfrine, manfroni, salterello, tresca, trescone) direct heir of the historical repertoire of Italian dance, as a basis for learning which stereotypical correspondence and therefore which significant links are established in the Italian tradition between stimulus sound and motor response. In particular, this year, the processional and collective forms will be dealt with.

CONFERENCES

MONDAY 29 JULY, 3 p.m.

Michele Epifani: The caccia in Italian Ars Nova

On this occasion the book by Michele Epifani on the Cacce will be presented: La caccia nell’Ars Nova italiana – Edizione critica e commentata dei testi e delle intonazioni (Firenze, Edizioni del Galluzzo)

TUESDAY 29 JULY, 3 p.m

Jonathan Bell: Smartvox-Medieval 2019 –Singing medieval music with your smart-phone

SmartVox is a web application dedicated to the apprenticeship of polyphony. It is designed to help musicians of all levels (from children/beginners to professional opera performer) to sing together in tune. It proved to be particularly useful with unfamiliar idioms (such as early polyphony, or contemporary microtonal music), or in productions scheduled with little rehearsal time.  Developed at Ircam by Jonathan Bell and Benjamin Matuszewski, SmartVox owes its realization to a long research process and generous support from the French medieval women vocal ensemble De Caelis. Jonathan bell, composer, is currently research associate with PRISM-CNRS lab in Marseille, and resident at Casa de Velasquez, as a member of French academy in Madrid.

FRIDAY 2 AUGUST, 3 p.m.

Sara Maria Fantini – Editing and performing the fourteenth-century Siciliane

RUNNING ORDER OF THE COURSE

9.00 a.m.-1.00 p.m. MAIN COURSES/MASTERCLASS

LESSONS are INDIVIDUAL, and concern both technique and style.

In addition to the study of free choice repertoire, unpublished or little known composers and their compositions will form an important part of the material to be looked at. Other students enrolled in the COURSE can attend these lessons as auditors.

Historical dance teaching will be given as GROUP LESSONS.

1.30-2.45 p.m.: LUNCH BREAK

3.00-4.20 p.m.: CONFERENCE or WORKSHOP 1

4.45-18.05 p.m.: WORKSHOP 2

6.30-7.50  p.m.: WORKSHOP 3

1-3 AUGUST

3.00-5.40 p.m.: DANCING THE SOUND with Placida Staro (folk dances) 

EVENING –  musical evenings surprise, in various places in the city of Spello (program in preparation)

ONLY FOR MONDAY 29 JULY

10.00 a.m.-1.00 p.m.: completing registration and payment of fees frequency 

1.30-2.45 p.m.: LUNCH

3.00-4.20 p.m.: Conference

4.30-8.30 p.m.: Main Courses

3 AUGUST

10.00 p.m.: FINAL CONCERT by the students

STUDENT FEE

Singing/Instrument course/Masterclass: 350 €

Percussion: 240 €

HISTORICAL DANCE: 230€

The fee above include the free attendance to the WORKSHOP and CONFERENCES, and  the LUNCH (complete menu – vegetarian and no; do not include DINNER and ACCOMMODATION)

It is possible to attend only the afternoon WORKSHOPS:

n. 1 LAB (4 hours) € 80 

n. 2 LAB (8 hours) € 130

n. 3 LAB (12 hours) € 170

n. 4 LAB (16 hours) € 220

Only WORKSHOPS Dancing the sound: Experiences from Italian traditions (8 hours) with Placida Staro – € 100

2° COURSE FREQUENCY:

Singing/Instrument course: 190 €

Percussion: 130 €

HISTORICAL DANCE: 80€

ENSEMBLE FEE (minimum 3 members):

Singing/Instrument course: 300 €

Percussion: 190 €

HISTORICAL DANCE: 180€ (minimum 6 members)

Costs include LUNCH: complete menu – vegetarian and no (do not include DINNER and ACCOMMODATION)

2° COURSE FREQUENCY FOR ENSEMBLE:

Singing/Instrument course: 180 €

Percussion: 120 €

HISTORICAL DANCE: 70€

DEADLINE: May 31

(after this date the registration to the course will be possible on the teacher’s evaluation)

We kindly ask the students to send an advance of €. 100 from 16 to 31 May to finalize the application.

After this date will be still possible to apply with an additional fee of 40€.

APPLICATION FORM

Name:

Surname:

Date and place of birth:

Address:

City:

Postal code:

Phone:

Mobile:

e-mail:

Applications to the Course:

Level: beginner advanced

Instrument played and preferred tuning:

Practical vocal or instrumental since:

at:

Knowledge of voice / instrument (specify diploma conservatory, regular school attendance courses, private education, autodidact):

Teachers had:

Other musical knowledge:

It allows the processing of personal data in accordance with standards Decree No. 196/2003.

Date:

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Please send the application form at: ale.matarangolo@gmail.com

HOTELS RECOMMENDED AT SPELLO

MONASTERO AGOSTINIANE S. MARIA MADDALENA agostinianespello@alice.it  tel.  0742 302259  0742 651156   Via Cavour, 1 

IN URBE 

http://www.inurbe.biz/

Apartaments tel. 0742 301145   +39 339 3434019 (Maria Paola Zurlo)

La TERRAZZA   

http://www.laterrazzadispello.it/

Apartaments tel. 0742 651184

Il CACCIATORE 

http://www.ilcacciatorehotel.com/

albergo  tel. 0742 301603

IL PORTONACCIO  www.albergoilportonaccio.it

To eat (in the center)

Osteria Da Dadà  0742 301327 (typical and cheap place)

Caffè Cavour (in piazza) 0742 651426 (various menus, typical and cheap place)

Julia Ristoro Inizio via Giulia (0742 481837) small place, pizzeria and salads

pizzeria (outside the walls): L’Orlando Furioso 0742 652125

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