Diving into Sea Shanties: ornamenting shanties in a range of early music styles [aimed at adults]
Recently sea shanties have been popularized across social media, and with good reason: these songs offer a wealth of musical material to work with. We will take a selection of shanties from different countries, and interpret them in different ways: in a traditional folk style (derived from irish music), with Renaissance divisions, the French baroque, and even a little Vivaldi! At the end of the class you will have lots of new music to play, and hopefully feel more confident in applying these techniques of ornamentation to other music too.
A=440; suitable for melody instruments at the intermediate level and above.
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