PERCUSSION | LEVEL 1 – BEGINNER Frame Drums I: Basic Techniques & Repertoires Learn to play round and square frame drums in medieval style by studying strokes and techniques recorded in medieval sources. You will also discover how to apply medieval rhythmic modes...
Medieval Singing | Level 3 – AdvancedDit du chancelier Philippe: A Story of Notre Dame’s most Glorious Chancellor (Advanced) This course covers: Proper vocal production for medieval repertoires based on the information contained in medieval sources. Diction,...
PLUCKED STRINGS (FINGERS) | LEVEL 3 – ADVANCED The Harp and Anglo-Norman Repertoire Develop a varied playing style on the medieval harp while exploring the fascinating sounds of the Anglo-Norman repertoire. Develop a varied playing style on the medieval harp while...
PLUCKED STRINGS (PLECTRUM) | LEVEL 3 – ADVANCED The Citole, Gittern, Psaltery and the Clerical Music Repertoire Strengthen your citole or psaltery technique and performance practice while exploring a collection of clerical compositions (Latin songs and instrumental...
MEDIEVAL MUSIC NOTATION Modal Notation Learn to read modal notation directly from the original sources following the instructions given by medieval theorists. This opens the door to the music of the School of Notre Dame. Immerse yourself in courses on the research...
BOWED STRINGS | LEVEL 3 – ADVANCED The Vielle and Jerome of Moravia Strengthen your vielle technique while studying the tunings, repertoires, and performance practice precepts (ornamentation, phrasing, rhythm) given by Jerome of Moravia in his Tractatus de music (c....
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...
PORTATIVE ORGAN | LEVEL 1 – BEGINNER Discovering the Portative Organ This course covers: Finger technique, bellow control and tuning Tuning with other instruments Instrumental repertoire, improvisation and ornamentation techniques Techniques for the accompaniment of...
PORTATIVE ORGAN | LEVEL 3 – ADVANCED Organ Performance Practice in the Medieval Clerical Universe Develop a high-level technique (bellows subtle control, precise tuning, expressiveness) as you explore an array of repertoires related to the instrument and learn about...
WIND INSTRUMENTS | LEVEL 2 – INTERMEDIATE Bagpipe/Pipe & Tabor 2: A grant piperie Advance your bagpipe (musa) or Pipe and Tabor playing technique while reconstructing a collection of pieces for these instruments based on the pastourelle, dance song, and...
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...
The Estampies and Danses Royales of the Manuscrit du Roi This online course offers an in-depth study and the creation of a full performance edition of all the instrumental pieces that are contained in the French 13th-century manuscript known as le Manuscrit du Roi...
MEDIEVAL MUSIC NOTATION Franconian Notation Learn to read Franconian notation directly from the original sources following the instructions given by Franco of Cologne and other medieval writers. This opens the door to the monophonic and polyphonic repertoires of the...
FOR COURSE INSTRUCTORS Managing Your Online Lessons This mini-course will guide you on how to run your MMB course and familiarize you with the course interface. Course Content Expand All GETTING STARTED Tour of the eLearning Platform for Instructors 3:15 MANAGING YOUR...