Dates
1 April — 7 April 2012
Features
- Chamber Groups
- Broken Consorts
- Technical Study
- Lectures
- Choir
- Ensembles
- Polychoral Music
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"We look forward to this course so much; it's a fixture in our diary round which the whole year revolves!"
...will be at the course
This popular and highly acclaimed one week course is informal and friendly and a great opportunity for adult players of recorders and viols to work on early music in a chamber setting.
There are seventy to eighty players with an approximate tutor:student ratio of 1:10. Players are not categorised by standard but there is an expectation that all players will be competent on their instruments and comfortably able to hold their own part so that all can enjoy playing in groups with any other players.
Players ...
... do not need to form their own group though self-selected groups are welcome.
... must be able hold a part with confidence.
... choose what music they work on within their group — there is an extensive library but no set music.
The daily timetable and the music studied in 2011 demonstrate the scope of the course.
There are also opportunities for playing outside the tutored sessions.
The course is at A=440 except by prior agreement with other players in small groups.
Recorder players are expected to bring and be competent with soprano, alto, tenor and bass recorders at 440. Viol players are strongly encouraged to play more than one of treble, tenor and bass viols.
Acceptance of students is dependent on whether they can be accommodated within a group.
Students applying as part of self-selected groups are expected to have a playing standard compatible with other groups and may be asked to sit out some sessions if necessary.