This course is meant for all amateur or semi-professional singers
who’d like to improve their singing of baroque music and their knowledge of the according style.
The baroque period takes over two and a half century,
and there’s a big difference in style per country and an enormous amount of musical genres.
What are the proper ornaments in those genres and countries, and how to apply them?
How was the language pronounced at that time?
How do we recognize the many rhetorical figures and how to deal with them?
What was esthetically the ideal of the period,
and does that have repercussions on the use of the voice and the gestures?
How to read the beautiful but frightening facsimiles of early editions?
An answer to all those questions, and more, is given step by step in this course.
We’ll start in 1600 with Caccini’s Nuove Musiche and we go all the way
to the sons of J.S. Bach at the end of the eighteenth century.
All countries and all styles will be treated.
One can be sure that this course shall also be a discovery journey;
dozens of composers, loads of new repertoire, well-known ánd totally unknown.
The course takes place one or two times a month, by appointment,
in Chelles (east of Paris).
It takes 15 minutes by Transilien (train) from Paris Gare de l’Est (direct/no stops)
or 20 minutes by RER E from Paris St. Lazare to get to Chelles.
who’d like to improve their singing of baroque music and their knowledge of the according style.
The baroque period takes over two and a half century,
and there’s a big difference in style per country and an enormous amount of musical genres.
What are the proper ornaments in those genres and countries, and how to apply them?
How was the language pronounced at that time?
How do we recognize the many rhetorical figures and how to deal with them?
What was esthetically the ideal of the period,
and does that have repercussions on the use of the voice and the gestures?
How to read the beautiful but frightening facsimiles of early editions?
An answer to all those questions, and more, is given step by step in this course.
We’ll start in 1600 with Caccini’s Nuove Musiche and we go all the way
to the sons of J.S. Bach at the end of the eighteenth century.
All countries and all styles will be treated.
One can be sure that this course shall also be a discovery journey;
dozens of composers, loads of new repertoire, well-known ánd totally unknown.
The course takes place one or two times a month, by appointment,
in Chelles (east of Paris).
It takes 15 minutes by Transilien (train) from Paris Gare de l’Est (direct/no stops)
or 20 minutes by RER E from Paris St. Lazare to get to Chelles.