Vielle: Performing Trouvère and Parisian Repertoires

Develop your vielle playing technique as you work with medieval tunings, learn how to improvise preludes and postludes, and perform different northern French repertoires: trouvère and clerical lyrical songs, dance pieces, and instrumental repertoires.

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. 1280).

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CLASSES

Vielle II: Session 1 – Chansons 1

Vielle II: Session 2 – Chansons 2

Vielle II: Session 3 – Song with refrain

Vielle II: Session 4 – Religious song

Vielle II: Session 5 – Lai

Vielle II: Session 6 – Danse Manuscript du Roi

Alejandro Hernández

Instructor

Alejandro Hernández studied historical violins at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (Barcelona) and musicology at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. In 2018 he released his solo CD on the vielle Tempus viellatorum through Enchiriadis. He is a member of the ensemble Rasos de Trobar.

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