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9/15/2024 - 9/21/2024
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Workshop

BROAD CREEK on Maryland's Scenic Eastern Shore
SEPTEMBER 15-21, 2024
Tina Chancey, coach

Spend whatever time you've got, a few days to a week, focusing on IMPROVISATION, both FREE and EARLY MUSIC.
Choose from these historical genres:
13th century Modal troubadour songs
14th century  Estampies
14th century  Faenza Codex/Italian Trecento
15th century  Basse Danse
16th century  English Lute Song
17th century  Divisions on a Ground (Playford)
18th century  Corelli (ornamentation), Hotteterre (preludes)
Other topics considered upon request.

We learn music by using our brain, ears and fingers; a combination of intellectual, aural and kinetic resources feeds us a wide variety of data that we use to unpick, understand and absorb the music, so we can know it well enough to interpret it and create our own synthesis. Each style will be presented with background material, listening examples and hands-on exercises. We'll work on listening to each other, experimentation and a joyous acceptance of mistakes.

Activities include beach walks, cookouts, two-hour workshops (morning and afternoon), campfires, group practice sessions and student improv cabaret each evening.

PRACTICAL MATTERS
Prerequisite: Not being afraid to try new things. Early and modern instruments welcome.
Timeframe: Come as many days as you can; suggest 3-4 minimum.
Food: Participants will cook on our own, sharing tasks.
Children and animals: Not advised.
Cost: $150/day for instruction, room and board. $1050/week. Classes start in the late afternoon-evening of 9/15. Workshop ends on 9/21--no classes on 9/22.

Info: Tina Chancey, tinachancey@cs.com, 703-407-0642

• Tina Chancey website

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