REPERTOIRES AND PERFORMANCE The Art of the Troubadour Song Explore the troubadour song repertoire through and in-depth practical study of its composers, sources, music notations, genres, social and historical context, and performance practice (from primary and...
REPERTOIRES AND PERFORMANCEThe Cantigas of Santa Maria of Alfonso X: Context, Notation, Performance Learn about the sources, context, music notation, and poetic and melodic construction of the Cantigas de Santa Maria and reconstruct their performance practice...
REPERTOIRES AND 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...
REPERTOIRES AND PERFORMANCE 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...
The Trouvère Chanson and its Performance This online course offers a comprehensive study of the trouvére chanson focusing on an examination of its principal composers and musical sources, its main poetic-musical structures and genres, its historical and cultural...