A=440; all instruments and levels welcome.
Join us for our first class of the 2021 summer workshop season! Adam, Rotem, Linda, and Hanneke will combine forces for a special joint session full of playful merriment.
Adam Gilbert will start in the heavens by sharing fifteenth-century settings of the Gloria from the Mass (one by Guillaume Dufay and one by Johannes Pullois) that symbolize Angels singing “in the mountains and in the valleys”.
Rotem Gilbert will join in with some “earthly delights”, including the anonymous chanson “N’avez vous point/Cocq en l'orge” that combines a song imitating the clucking of a rooster and a sweet love song, and “Se mon flageolet joli”, a suggestive song with an invitation to play an amorous flute.
Linda Pearse will introduce us to the Italian maestra of the San Vito convent in Ferrara, Raffaella Aleotti (c. 1575–c. 1640), who published the first book of motets by a nun: Sacrae cantiones (Venice 1593). This collection includes mostly forward-looking motets in the concertato style with one exception: the retrospective motet “Miserere mei, Deus,” a setting that demonstrates Aleotti’s desire to link her work to Ferrara’s musical tradition. We will consider aspects of nuns' music making in Ferrara and the context for this piece specifically, prior to playing through this motet.
Hanneke van Proosdij finishes with In me transierunt irae tuae by Orlande de Lassus which has been quoted in 1619 by Johannes Kepler as being, in his opinion and by mathematical measurements, the closest a composer had ever got close to the "harmony of spheres". This beautiful motet was also used by Joachim Burmeister in his treatise Musica poetica from 1606 as a model for rhetorical analysis.
Join the San Francisco Early Music Society for three months of virtual class offerings from our Baroque, Classical, Medieval/Renaissance, and Recorder Workshops! Whether you are a casual listener or a dedicated community player, we have over 100 lectures, demonstrations, and play-along sessions just for you.
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