Amherst Early Music

Fall Weekend Workshop
Class Selection Form

CLASS PLACEMENT FORM FOR FALL WEEKEND WORKSHOP

If we know you just bring us up to date;
newcomers please fill out this form carefully,
using a separate form for each applicant.
If you have questions call the office: 617-744-1324

First Name: Last Name:
Address:
City: State: Zip:
Eve Phone: Day Phone
Occupation: Age (approx.):
Email:

MUSICAL SKILLS (for all applicants) Rate yourself from 1 to 5 below (1 = best)

Clef reading: treble	bass	c-clefs
Rhythmic accuracy:	Reading from parts:	Knowledge of Renaissance Style:

If you had to choose, would you rather be placed in a class:
well within your ability or a bit above your head?

Below: Rate yourself from 1 to 5 (1=best). Put brackets around any you don't own or won't bring.

RECORDERS Bass-owners: for optimum class placement, bring your own bass!

S A A8va T B GB Do you also own Renaissance recs?: S A T B

Select Overall Playing Level

Sightreading

BOWED STRINGS Treble Tenor Bass VIOLIN VIELLE REBEC How well do you read tablature?

Select Overall Playing Level

Sightreading

FLUTES Renaissance Baroque Type pitches you will bring:

Select Overall Playing Level

Sightreading

REEDS and BRASS such as shawms, curtals, sackbuts, cornetti, krummhorns etc. List, giving sizes and playing level for each; bracket any you don't own or won't bring.

PLUCKED STRINGS: LUTE GUITAR HARP OTHER

KEYBOARD: HARPSICHORD ORGAN OTHER

VOICE: S A CT T B

Sightreading

OTHER List:

Please give a brief summary of your studying and playing experience for each instrument and for voice and anything else you think we should know. Have you studied privately? For how long, and with whom? What classes have you taken? Do you participate regularly in an ensemble? With whom? Any experience with Renaissance notation? Have past placements at Amherst Early Music workshops been satisfactory? Please type in the space below.

Class Descriptions

Indicate choices at left. If your first choice is labeled "give second choice," mark it "1st" and indicate your second choice with "2nd".

CLASSES 9:00 TO 10:30

1st	2nd
		No Class
		Renaissance Ensembles (Neely, Petersen, Rozendaal, van Oers) Ensembles for all instruments (no shawms!), and from low intermediate to very advanced, are sorted on the basis of students’ experience, proficiency, and balance of instruments. If you want this option, you will definitely get it. If you greatly prefer an all-recorder ensemble or a mixed recorder/viol group, please put an "R" or an "M" here:
		Breukink Recorders Ensemble (Roberts) One-to-a-part, using Amherst Early Music's Rogers Consort of Breukink Renaissance Recorders. Participants must be willing to work with Renaissance fingerings. Advanced. Give second choice.
		Renaissance Flute Ensemble (Haas) Enjoy the beauty of Renaissance flutes in ensemble repertoire. Eric will bring two matched sets of flutes for use in class. Some previous experience with Renaissance flute is required.
		Early Notation Ensemble (Horst) A mixed ensemble that will work from facsimiles of Renaissance mss. and prints. For those comfortable with early notation; easier and harder lines, some reminders, mainly music-making.
		Baroque Master Class (Coolen, Gevert) Public "private lesson" for advanced recorder and continuo players; auditors of all levels are welcome. Specify Play or Audit below. Players should plan to provide eight copies of score of your piece for fellow class members to follow and take notes on. Please select: I will play Recorder \| Continuo I will Audit \| Perform Piece: Pitch?

CLASSES 11:00 TO 12:30

1st	2nd
		No Class
		Viol Consorts (Neely, Rozendaal) All-viol consorts; we sort you. Rotation of teachers and/or students possible.
		Recorder Topic: The Splendor of Venice and the Glory of Rome (Haas, Horst) Enjoy the widely varied repertoire of the Italian 16th century – fun, witty, uplifting, sonorous. Intermediate to advanced; class will be divided.
		Multi-Choir Music for Recorders (Coolen, van Oers) Challenging polychoral music from circa 1600. (Advanced)
		Loud Band (Boenau) Mixed loud ensemble for players of cornet, shawm, dulcian, and sackbut. Repertoire will be chosen to suit available instruments. Advanced level *Give second choice*.
		Baroque Flute (Roberts) A hands-on class for flute players on all aspects of Baroque flute technique and repertoire. Bring pieces you are working on!
		Continuo Club (Gevert) A class on continuo playing and accompanying for harpsichord and lute. Develop fluency and explore the richness of good continuo playing. Participants should have a basic working knowledge of figures.

CLASSES 2:00 TO 3:30 (Saturday and Sunday only)

1st	2nd
		No Class
		Renaissance & Baroque Ensembles (Gevert, Haas, Neely, Roberts, Rozendaal, van Oers) For recorders, viols, flute, voice, keyboard. If you have a strong preference, indicate R or B. We assign you. Indicate instrument(s) you wish to play; if you chose B, also indicate pitch. If you chose B, indicate your 2nd choice (either R or alternative option). Instrument: Preference: Pitch:
		J.S. Bach for Recorders (Coolen) Fabulous 4-part arrangements of works by J.S. Bach coached by a master teacher. There will be doubling! Intermediate and advanced.
		Gabrieli for singers, brass, and reeds (Boenau) Kyrie, Gloria, and Sanctus in 12 parts by Giovanni Gabrieli from 1597 for singers, cornets, sackbuts, dulcians. Class will be joined by Crescendo! choir singers at warm-up rehearsal Sunday, 6:45 p.m. Performance: Sunday evening as part of the faculty concert. Advanced level. Participants must have excellent sightreading skills.
		Medieval Ensemble (Petersen) Hauntingly beautiful 14th- and early 15th-century polyphony for all soft instruments.

RENAISSANCE NOTATION CLASSES 3:45 TO 5:15 (Saturday and Sunday only)

1st	2nd
		No Class
		Intermediate (Horst) Odhecaton, Canti C, and more. Easier and harder lines, ligature review, perhaps some triple.
		Advanced (Petersen) Acquaintance with ligatures and triple mensuration assumed.

EVENINGS
Group playing and singing for all. Check those you will attend. (If your plans change later, don't worry; we just need a rough idea.)

Friday, 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, 7:45 p.m.

Afterwards: English country dancing (Petersen), for all (all dances taught from scratch), with live music by lively faculty and others!

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Fall Weekend WorkshopClass Selection Form

Fall Weekend Workshop
Class Selection Form