Dit 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, articulation, and tuning.
Ornamentation as indicated by contemporaneous treatises.
Study of vocal exercises from medieval sources.

Study Philippe le Chancelier’s songs while developing an advanced vocal technique and acquiring practical tools for the understanding and performance of any medieval song repertoire.

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Course Content

Getting Started

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Welcome to Medieval Singing

CLASSES

Session 1: Entering the City: Context — Paris 1200

Session 2: The Singer’s Songbook: Orality and the Written Sources

Session 3: Philippe the Preacher and the Ars Praedicandi

Session 4: Using Rhetoric as a Tool for Performance

Session 5: Singing by Heart: Ars Memoriae and Applied Medieval Techniques for Memorisation

Session 6: Leaving Paris: The European Context of Latin Song

GENERAL MEDIEVAL SINGING SUBJECTS

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Jasmina Črnčič

Instructor
The Slovenian singer Jasmina Črnčič holds a bachelors degree in classical singing pedagogy from the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Austria) and a masters’ degree in medieval music performance from the Folkwang University of the Arts (Germany). She is a voice instructor in the Carmina Slovenica ensemble, and a member in the ensembles Magister Petrus and Na rota do peregrino.

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Digital Library

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