Spring Break Workshop

First Class Period
9:30 - 10:45 am Saturday & Sunday
Early 17th century Leipzig Vocal and Instrumental Music by Calvisius, Fritsch, and Schein, with Rainer Beckmann
Telemann Concerto for 4 violins in an arrangement for recorder quartet, with Annette Bauer
Splendor in Graz Giovanni Priuli’s Canzonas and Vocal Works, with Wendy Powers
Creative Thievery the dance music of Heinrich Praetorius.  This German master-of-all genres snitched over 300 tunes from the French dancing masters and set them in endlessly entertaining arrangements, from the simple to the ankle-twisting, with Valerie Horst

Second Class Period
11:15 am - 12:30 pm Saturday & Sunday
Selections from the Westron Wynde Masses by Tavener, Tye, and Sheppard, with Rainer Beckmann
Lassus in Germany: from the Tenorlied to the Motet, with Tish Berlin
Advanced Notation Music by English composers in 15th century continental sources - Music by John Bedyngham, Robert Morton, Walter Frye, John Dunstaple and others, with Annette Bauer
The Anniversary Men Byrd and Weelkes, with Wendy Powers
The Crane’s Beak, The Rat’s Tail: music from the Glogauer Liederbuch, with Valerie Horst

Third Class Period
2:00 - 3:15 pm Saturday, All Workshop Session on Sunday
Quodlibets by Isaac and Senfl, with Rainer Beckmann
O Nachbar Roland Canzonas by Samuel Scheidt, with Tish Berlin
O Rosa Bella (Bedyngham/Dunstable) - a 15th century song of fame, with Annette Bauer
Beginning Notation A taste of 15th- and 16th-century notation in a single class! C clefs, note and rest shapes, ligatures, meters, choirbook format, a teeny bit of triple, with Wendy Powers

Fourth Class Period
3:30 - 4:45 pm Saturday
Holborne Pavans, Galliards, Almains, and other dances, with Rainer Beckmann
Fyre, Lightning, and Wind Duets and Trios by Thomas Morley and H. U. Staeps, with Tish Berlin
Playford dances! Easy arrangements of English Country dance tunes, with Annette Bauer
Heinrich Finck the first Great German Polyphonist, with Valerie Horst