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A Woman Inconsolable: Settings of “Comme femme desconfortée” with Rotem Gilbert

Class
Online Event

Taught by Rotem Gilbert, recorder professional and Professor of Practice at USC Thornton School of Music (CA).
Burgundian composers were eager to set Gilles Binchois’ popular rondeau Comme femme desconfortée, one of the most famous 15th-century chansons, setting a text in the voice of a woman whose lover has been taken by Death. In this class we will explore different intricate compositions, from the original chanson from the 1460s found in the beautiful heart-shaped Cordiforme Chansonnier, to an ornate duo and intricate four-voice setting from the 1490s by Alexander Agricola, and the iconic Agnus of Henricus Isaac’s Missa Comme femme desconfortée, composed in Florence, ca. 1485-88.

 

 

12/9/2020

11:00 AM Pacific Time (12:00 PM Mountain, 1:00 PM Central, 2:00 PM Eastern)

online, via Zoom
, AL

Greta Haug-Hryciw
(phone: 415-377-4444)

$25.00  
This class is part of Voices of Music's first series of online classes for adults, open to those with a variety of experience levels and instruments. Some scholarships are available. To register for this or any of the other classes please visit the Voices of Music online classes website page (https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?class=vom) or call our box office registrar listed in the contact information for this event. The Zoom link for the class will be sent by email to registrants.