Indiana Early Double-Reed Workshop
Spring, 2013
Tuesday, 7 May – Monday, 13 May 2013
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Session I
Dulcian Days at the IEDRW
7 – 9 May 2013
Dulcian, Curtal, Fagott, Bajón – whatever you call it, it remains the most important and lasting early double-reed instrument to have emerged from the hands of makers in the 16th century. Dulcian Day at the workshop will focus attention on this versatile and demanding double-reed instrument. We’ll pursue its history and development, its uses in the Renaissance and early Baroque periods, its specific technical concerns, fingerings and reeds, its full family of sizes and preferred consorts, its possible repertoire and its regional variants. But most of all, we will play dulcians, individually and in consort, with repertoire drawn from across the European continent and the British isles.
(for intermediate through advanced players of dulcian, pitch will be A=440)
Daily Schedule
Tuesday, 7 May 2013 – Prep Day
Arrive in the late afternoon or evening. Get settled into the camp, unpack and
set up instruments in the chapel.
Dinner – either at the camp, or an arranged dinner out together for those who have
arrived early or in time for the scheduled outing. approx. 7 pm.
Wednesday, 8 May 2013
7:00 – 7:45 am Morning bike ride, yoga session, hike (?) – optional of course
8:00 – 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 – 10:15 am Welcome and Introduction
Warm ups, technical review: embouchure, chromatics, fingerings
10:15 – 10:30 Morning break: coffee/tea refreshers, snacks
10:30 – 12:00 Discussion: History, bibliography, makers, sizes and uses,
repertoire; Piffaro’s high-pitched collection on display,
from alto in G to the octavebass, and all the sizes in between.
Tutti playing session: building dulcian repertoire, transpositions, clefs, notation
12:00 – 2:00 pm Lunch and early afternoon free time
2:00 – 3:30 Playing session: one-on-a-part consort repertoire – establish groups
and repertoire for small ensemble presentations on Thursday afternoon.
3:30 – 4:00 Afternoon break
4:00 – 5:30 Option A: Solo repertoire/continuo playing for bass dulcian
(open to players and auditors)
Option B: Playing session II – consort repertoire continued (mixed levels)
5:30 – 7:30 Dinner break
7:30 – 8:30 The Dulcian Reed: discussion, evaluation, adjustments, comparison
8:30 – 9:30 Playing session: end of day, si placet, evening consort
9:30 – bedtime Social gathering: libations & snacks in the big house
Thursday, 9 May 2013
7:00 – 7:45 am Morning bike ride, yoga session, hike (?) – optional of course
8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 – 10:15 Warm ups, technical review: tuning and articulation exercises
10:15 – 10:30 Morning break: coffee, tea, snacks
10:30 – 12:00 Playing session: one-on-a-part consort repertoire: established
small ensembles final preparation for afternoon presentation
11:50 – 1:30 Lunch and break time
1:30 – 3:30 Masterclass: solo and small ensemble presentations
Final tutti playing & wrap-up
3:30 – 6:00 Afternoon break (Bob will be available for individual lessons,
instrument/reed work, etc.)
6:00 – 7:00 Dinner – followed by:
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Session II
Main Double-Reed Workshop
Repertoire Concentration:
Flemish composers from late 15th – 16 centuries
Highlighted topics:
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(1)Deplorations, (2) Instrumental Ricercar, and
(3) Cori Spezzati
Thursday, 9 May 2013
Afternoon Arrive, check-in, unpack, set up instruments in chapel, warm up
6:00 – 7:00 pm Dinner
7:30 – 9:30 pm Opening session of IEDRW
Welcome, introductions, get acquainted
Introduce theme, topics and foci of the workshop
Announce new initiatives:
Mentoring system
“Round Robin” mixed-level sessions
Off-site playing session: Acoustic awareness
Focus piece: Gombert’s Musae Jovis
tutti playing session
9:30 – bedtime Opening night party in the big house
Daily Schedule: Friday – Sunday, 10-12 May 2013
7:00 – 7:45 am Morning bike ride, yoga session, hike (?) – si placet
8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 – 10:15 Technique Sessions
Friday: General overview, mantra, exercises
Saturday: Support, breathing & breath control; wind vs. air; how
softly can you play – why and how!
Sunday: Again with the mi’s and fa’s! Mastering the chromatics
in just and meantone environments; awareness and exercises
10:15 – 10:30 Morning break
10:30 – 12:00 Topic sessions (with consort playing)
Friday: Mass & motet, Flemish international language of
sacred polyphony; cadential awareness and analysis;
Clemens non Papa’s Ave mundi spes Maria
Saturday: Deplorations & original notation
Josquin’s Nymphes des bois (for Ockeghem)
Gombert’s Musae Jovis (for Josquin)
Isaac’s Quis dabit capiti meo aquam (for Maximilian I)
Sunday: Dance music
Susato’s Het derde musyck boexken (1551)
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch and break
1:30 – 3:30 Round Robin Session I (mixed level playing in consort)
(Saturday Round Robin will end at 3:00 for departure to
off-site playing location at 3:30)
3:30 – 4:00 Afternoon break
4:00 – 5:45 Friday : Playing session (divided by level)
Group A: Advanced players (chapel with Bob)
Group B: Intermediate – high intermediate (house w/Joan)
Saturday: Off-site playing session – managing in a large acoustic
Sunday : Playing session (divided by level)
Group A: Advanced players (chapel with Bob)
Group B: Intermediate – high intermediate (house w/Joan)
5:45 – 7:30 Dinner and break (Saturday night dinner out option)
7:30 – 8:30 Friday: Option 1 – Instrument/Reed triage (big house with Bob)
Option 2 – Si placet playing session (chapel with Joan)
Saturday: Night out in Nasville (IN, that is!) – si placet
Sunday: Lecture: Instruments and Ensembles in Flemish Art
8:30 – 9:30 Friday: tutti playing session to end the day
Saturday: Night out in Nashville – si placet
Sunday: Instrument maintenance/oiling demonstration. Q&A on
daily care and periodic triage
9:30 – bedtime Evening snacks/libations in big house
Monday, 13 May 2013
7:00 – 7:45 am Morning bike ride, yoga session, hike (?) – si placet
8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 – 10:30 Cori Spezzati and the beginnings of polychoralism
Willaert’s I Salmi Spezzati…a uno et a duoi chori (Venice,1550)
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 12:00 Final playing session: Summation
Gombert’s Musae Jovis redux
11:45 – 12:30 Pack up instruments
12;30 – 1:30 Lunch
End of IEDRW main sessions
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