Your Recorder Community

4/11/2023 - 5/2/2023
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Eastern

FOUR TUESDAYS, NOON-1:30PM
APRIL 11 - MAY 2, ET (Zoom)
 
What makes a good ECD musician? Someone who can bring the tune alive; who knows its history from first printing to the most recent interpretations; who listens and responds to the other musicians, as well as to the caller and the dancers. Being able to improvise in whatever range, inventing ornaments, creating countermelodies, accompaniments, bass divisions and harmony parts, is invaluable.
 
This class teaches the basic skills necessary to be a first-rate ECD musician. Each week we'll look at 2-3 tunes from one of the 18 Dancing Master editions from 1651-1728. We'll analyze their structure, phrasing, harmony, melody and rhythm and discuss how the tune and the choreography mesh; we'll practice learning the tune by ear, and then we'll improvise the different elements in the above list. Before class you'll get a lead sheet of the tune and chords plus some suggested additional parts, and MP3s to play along with.
After each class you'll receive a class video. 40% discussion, 60% playing.
$20 per class, $80 total. Scholarships available.
 
CONTACT: tinachancey@cs.com to register, to pay, and for Zoom coords.
 

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Tina Chancey

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