Join together for preludes from the L’Art de Preludier by Jacques-Martin Hotteterre and songs from Der Fluten Lust-hof (The Flute’s Garden of Delight)by Jacob van Eyck. Now it is the perfect time to develop solo repertory. In this Recorder Master class we will compare these two different styles of solo recorder repertory and consider technical approaches to sound, articulation, finger control, breathing and interpretation based on historical performance practices.
Number of Students: 4 Observers: no cap
Level: Upper Intermediate and advanced
Tuning: 440 or 415-Ganassi Soprano or G Alto, Reading in C fingering and alto baroque.
If you don’t have Renaissance instruments you can play on the Baroque soprano.
Class length 90 minutes
Repertoire: Jacob van Eyck (c. 1590-1657) was a Dutch nobleman and musician. He was one of the best-known musicians in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century, working as a carillon player, organist, recorder virtuoso, and composer.
Van Eyck composed the Der Fluyten Lust-hof (The Flute's Garden of Delights, or The Flute's Pleasure Garden). Editions of this work appeared in 1644, 1646, 1649, 1654, and 1656. Der Fluyten Lust-hof comprises an extensive collection of approximately 140 melodies, each with a number of diminutions or variations, for solo soprano recorder. The themes include folk songs, dance tunes, church works, Psalms, and songs of the day.
Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (1674–1763), was a French composer and flautist who was the most celebrated of a family of wind instrument makers and wind performers. Hotteterre was born in Paris and lived and studied in Rome early in his career. By 1708, he became a musician to the King of France. Hotteterre owed his fame largely to his talent for playing the flute, an instrument for which he wrote a number of pieces. Hotteterre was also an internationally celebrated teacher of aristocratic patrons. He wrote one method for the transverse flute, recorder, and oboe, published in 1707, as well as a method for the musette, published in 1737. His L'Art de préluder sur la flûte traversière was published in 1719.
The San Francisco Early Music Society has moved its Baroque, Medieval/Renaissance, and Recorder summer workshops online.
Join us for the June offerings: https://sfems.org/sfems-workshops/virtual-sessions/
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