Spring Break Workshop Classes 2023

Spring Break Workshop 2023
Continental Conversations - Music of Italy and England
Workshop pitch is A=440, viol classes are A=415

First Period: 9:30 – 10:45 a.m. Saturday and 1:00 - 2:15 p.m. Sunday
RECORDER
Italian and Portuguese Women Composers of the 16th and 17th Centuries: Madrigals, Motetti, and Canzone (Beckmann, Berlin, Powers) Recorders/Intermediate to Advanced Levels. NOTE: one section may be for Renaissance recorders. Indicate whether you are bringing Renaissance consort recorders on your class choice form.
Motets, canzone, and madrigals by Casulana, Duarte, Aleotti, Caccini, Rusca, Assanadra – any of these can appear on your music stand in this class. Instructors will guide you through their choice selections, all the while giving tips and advice on techniques, playing styles and the art of turning notes into music. Students will be assigned by level from intermediate through advanced.
VIOL (classes will be divided by level, Pitch is A=415)
The Ferraboscos: an Italian spy and his English son (Gillespie)
A genuine Italian, Alfonso Ferrabosco, went to England and sired Alfonso Ferrabosco, Jr., who probably never left England. Both were composers who wrote some fabulous music, a tiny bit of which this class will explore.
Byrd Soaring (Moran)
We will celebrate the 400th anniversary of Byrd’s death by playing selections from his otherworldly vocal and viol consort music
LUTE
"Shredding a fine line": Sixteenth Century Madrigals Plain and Fancy. (Freundlich, Morrongiello)
Lute ensembles coached by Douglas Freundlich and Christopher Morrongiello. Based on historical models, Doug's new arrangements feature bursts of ornamentation distributed among all the voices.The ensembles are small, so everyone has a chance to shine. Composers include Arcadelt, Layolle and others. G-lutes; A=440; Easy-to-read tablature parts
CHORUS
Anima Mea: Renaissance Italy from the Madrigal to the Motet
Choral Workshop with Dr. Allan Laiño, and accompanist Heather Adelsberger

Second Period: 11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m Saturday and 2:45 - 4:00 p.m. Sunday
RECORDER
England: Still Sweet in the 20th Century: Delius, Britten, and Vaughan Williams in Song and Dance (Berlin) Intermediate
Beautiful melodies and harmonies abound in English music from the 20th century. We'll work on movements from Vaughan Williams’ quartet Suite for Pipes written in 1939, an arrangement of a choral work by Delius, and the Scherzo for quartet by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). These composers worked with a wide palette of colors in their compositions, calling for expressive dynamics and varied and evocative articulations.
Honoring William Byrd on the 400th Anniversary of His Death (Powers) Upper Intermediate.
William Byrd (ca. 1540-1623) was the greatest English composer of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. A Roman Catholic, he composed music for both the Church of England and for private Catholic worship. Byrd was a versatile composer of sacred and secular vocal music, iconic instrumental fantasias, consort songs, and marvelous keyboard variations, and he was a pioneering music publisher. Come celebrate the anniversary!
Cipriano de Rore & Girolamo Dalla Casa: A la dolce ombra de le belle frondi (Beckmann) Advanced
We will delve into the art of diminution by playing all six stanzas of Cipriano de Rore's madrigal A la dolce ombra de le belle frondi, first published in 1544, and comparing them with Girolamo Dalla Casa's highly ornamented version of the same piece from 1584. The vocal diminutions applied to all four voices of the madrigal provide recorder players an inspiring and highly accessible historical example of ensemble ornamentation.
VIOL (classes will be divided by level, Pitch is A=415)
Thomas Lupo: an Italian in England (Gillespie)
Thomas Lupo was part of a larger family of Italian-English musicians who first came to England in the time of Henry VIII. It is not surprising that many of Lupo’s works for viols bear madrigalistic traits, sometimes even including Italian titles. Lupo wrote a great many fantasias for viol consorts of 4, 5 and 6 parts.
Dancing with the Bow (Moran)
Have you got rhythm? We will focus on inflection and articulation to make the beat come to life in charming pavans and galliards by Holborne, Haussmann & Gibbons.
LUTE
Italian madrigals and diminutions (Freundlich, Morrongiello)
Lute ensembles coached by Douglas Freundlich and Christopher Morrongiello.
CHORUS
Anima Mea: Renaissance Italy from the Madrigal to the Motet
Choral Workshop with Dr. Allan Laiño, and accompanist Heather Adelsberger

Third Period: 2:00 – 3:15 p.m. Saturday
RECORDER
Musica Transalpina (Berlin) Intermediate
Published in England in 1588, Musica Transalpina, a collection of (mostly) Italian madrigals with texts in English, marked the beginning of the English love affair with the madrigal. Works by Wert, Ferrabosco, and Byrd.
Matthew Locke: A Suite in Three Parts (Beckmann) Upper-Intermediate
Matthew Locke was one of the great English composers of consort music after the Jacobean golden age. He probably wrote most of his consort music during the Commonwealth (1649-1660), when the interest in domestic consort music was at its height. We will play a suite from The Flat Consort of three parts consisting of backward-looking fantasias and fashionable dance movements. The Flat Consort collection presumably has an origin in the musical activities of the prominent Kemble family of Pembridge Castle, Herefordshire.
La Merula: Canzonas by Tarquinio Merula (Powers) Advanced
Merula (1594/5-1665) was an innovative north Italian composer whose four published collections of ensemble canzonas were regarded as some of the finest of his era, with some based on ostinatos, dances, and popular melodies. Class will focus on Merle’s early four-part canzonas.
VIOL (Pitch for viol classes is A=415)
Giovanni Coprario: the Italian Englishman (Gillespie, Moran)
Italian musicians were very fashionable in C16 and C17 London. By the turn of the 17th century, the 30-year old English composer John Cowper, or Cooper, had reinvented himself as Giovanni Coprario. He spent much of his career at court and taught both the Prince of Wales, later Charles I, and William Lawes. We have about a hundred fantasias for three to six viols with his name, many transcriptions of his own madrigals. Get acquainted with some of this Italianate English music by a skilled and underrated composer.
LUTE
Lecture: Italian and English settings of the "Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Mi" Figure (Morrongiello)
Chris Morrongiello digs deeper into the madrigal repertoire with his lecture/demonstration, Italian and English settings of the "Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Mi" figure.
CHORUS
Anima Mea: Renaissance Italy from the Madrigal to the Motet
Choral Workshop with Dr. Allan Laiño, and accompanist Heather Adelsberger

Fourth Period: 3:30 – 4:45 p.m. Saturday
RECORDER
Fairest Isle: English Consorts, Medieval to Restoration (Powers) Intermediate
A short, necessarily biased tour through English chamber polyphony from late Medieval to the 17th-century Restoration, with a stroll through the likes of Dunstable, Cornysh, Holborne, Wilbye, and Purcell.
William Brade: Consort Music in Six Parts (Beckmann) Upper-Intermediate
Like several other leading English instrumentalists of his time, William Brade (1560-1630) left his native country to earn his living in Germany. The musical selections of this class are going to be drawn from Brade's six-part collection of consort music published in Hamburg in 1614. Enjoy intricate rhythms, lush sonorites, and traits of contrapuntal writing in pairs of stylized pavans and galliards.
Consort Music in England’s Golden Age (Berlin) Advanced
In Nomines, fantasias, and instrumental settings of vocal works gave English composers a chance to show off their contrapuntal and melodic skills. Works by William Mundy, John Taverner, Robert Parsons, and William Daman. Find out why the 16th century was golden for music in England!
VIOL
Fantastic Fantasist: Richard Mico (Gillespie, Moran)
Richard Mico’s family immigrated from France to England several generations before his birth in 1590. Find out why Christopher Simpson declared him one of the best composers of fantasias!
LUTE
"Monica Memories and More” (Freundlich)
A look at some music we missed when our 2020 workshop was cancelled. Includes polyphonic settings of La Monica ( Une Jeune Fillette) by Chardavoine, Du Caurroy, Charpentier, and Bach.
CHORUS
Anima Mea: Renaissance Italy from the Madrigal to the Motet
Choral Workshop with Dr. Allan Laiño, and accompanist Heather Adelsberger

5:30 - 6:15 Saturday Faculty Concert in the nave
4:15 - 5:30 Sunday Full workshop session with Doug and Tish in the nave