1MA Atelier Early Music (B-LUCA-L43188)

6 ECTSEnglish18 Second termSecond term
Op De Beeck Anne (coordinator) |  Demuyt Bart |  N.
LUCA POC GRADUATE (OC instr/zang, jazz, muziekpedagogie, muziektherapie Leuven)

Aims

This course has in view the needs of students for a basis grounding of performing 17th and 18th century music. It doesn't matter if the instrument is a "modern" or "old" one. This course summarises the principles of authentic interpretation in baroque music and thier practical application in performance. It dileberately leaves out the more complicated or controversial refinements, but it brings in whatever the student shoud now regard as essential, substantiated by the evidence of the baroque composers and wirters themselves. Bart Spanhove will students provide with basis information about ornaments, rhetorics, phrasing and articulation, musical forms, rhythmic alteration, to sum up a few modules. 

Previous knowledge

This course is open to students of main subject Instrumental/Vocal Studies.

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If the student does not belong to one of the above-mentioned categories, exceptional admission can be requested by contacting the responsible coordinator of the course, by email. After written approval, the student can include this course in the ISP.

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Activities

6 ects. 1MA Atelier Early Music (B-LUCA-L55439)

6 ECTSEnglishFormat: Lecture-practical-assignment18 Second termSecond term
Demuyt Bart |  N.
LUCA POC GRADUATE (OC instr/zang, jazz, muziekpedagogie, muziektherapie Leuven)

Content

In the atelier of early music, Bart Spanhove presents essential information on various subjects vital for performing baroque music: ornamentation, rhetoric, musical forms, phrasing, articulation, cadenzas… The theory into praxis (musicking) means that we perform and play the music by Bach, Händel, Corelli and Vivaldi. In short, the atelier of early music is the perfect starting point for anyone looking to understand the language of the first half of the 18th century.

Modules Atelier Early Music

  • Baroque styles: French and Italian language of the 18th century. Les goûts réunis.
  • Ornaments
  • Rhetoric
  • Musical forms in the music by Bach (suites, partita’s)
  • Improvisation and cadenzas
  • Articulation and phrasing 
  • Literature and treatises from the 18th century: Couperin, Quantz, Hotteterre, C. P. E. Bach, Geminiani

 

Course material

Lessons have a very practical character. All students have to play and perform on their instrument. For each lesson, good literature will be recommended.  

Language of instruction: more information

English

Format: more information

After a short theoretical introduction, lessons will be held in the format of a masterclas (different students are model and feedback by the (guest) teacher or workshop (experimenting the topic).

Evaluation

1MA Atelier Early Music (B-LUCA-L83188)

Type : Exam during the examination period
Description of evaluation : Practical exam
Learning material : Reference work, Music scores

Explanation

AssessmentGrading scale
TOTAL1-20/20 scale

The result (on 20) is entirely determined on the basis of a practical exam in the form of a concluding workshop (of a maximum of 3 hours) in the examination period.

The student can only participate in this practical exam if he/she attended 80% of the contact moments (registered on the attendance list).