Indiana Early Double Reed Workshop
Fall 2014
Thursday, October 30 – Monday, November 3, 2014
Bob Wiemken & Joan Kimball, instructors
(running concurrently with the
Indiana Sackbut Workshop
Adam Bregman, instructor)
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The Iberian Peninsula
Music from two great
Spanish Cancioneros
Palacio & Uppsala
Highlighted daily topics:
The Villancico: History, form & practice
Ortiz & Ornamentation
Mastering solmization
Thursday, October 30
Afternoon Check-in, unpack, set up instruments in chapel, warm up
6:00 – 7:00 pm Dinner
7:30 – 9:30 pm Opening session of IEDRW
Welcome, introductions, get acquainted
Introduce theme, topics and foci of the workshop
Tutti warm ups and brief playing session
Encina’s Una sañosa porfia & Cucú, cucú, cucucú
9:30 – bedtime Opening night party in the big house
Daily Schedule: Friday – Sunday, October 31 – November 2
8:00 – 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 – 10:15 am Technique Sessions
Friday: General overview, mantra, exercises, just tuning.
Review original notation, clefs & transpositions.
Saturday: Review gamut, modes & cadences, with Ortiz’s
cadential patterns. Begin solmization study.
Sunday: Continuing with Ortiz – interval studies and how to
apply to a written source; More solmization!
10:15 – 10:30 am Morning break
10:30 – 12:00 noon Topic sessions (with consort playing)
Friday: The Villancico – history & practice, examples from
Cancionero Musical de Palacio
Saturday: Villancicos & more, examples from Cancionceros
Palacio & Uppsala
.
Sunday: Early 16th c. developments, examples from
Uppsala
12:00 – 1:30 pm Lunch and break
Friday & Saturday afternoons:
1 pm Saturday only: Lecture by Paul Borg, Professor at Indiana
University, on the Villancico, its history, form and functions
1:30 – 3:30 [pm Small group playing session I
3:30 – 4:00 pm Afternoon break
4:00 – 5:45 pm Small-group Playing Session II
Both afternoon, coached sessions will attempt to match players by
level and instruments (i.e. D & G shawms, etc.) and offer opportunites
for one-on-a-part playing. Each session will read repertoire and, if so
desired, select and prepare one piece that can be presented to the
combined participants on Monday morning in a showcase session in
either the chapel or the big room above the swimming pool
Repertoire concentrations:
Friday: The late 15th century & Palacio: Encina, Milán,
Escobar, Peñalosa, et al.
Saturday: Early decades of 16th century & Uppsala:
Almodar, Morales, Flecha, et al.
Sunday: Review & rehearse pieces selected for the
Monday showcase, plus more reading from
both Palacio & Uppsala
Daily evenings:
5:45 – 7:30 pm Dinner and break (Sunday night dinner out in Bloomington option)
7:30 – 9:00 pm Friday, Saturday & Sunday:
Option 1 – Instrument/Reed triage, reed making (big house with
Bob)
Option 2 – Playing sessions (with Joan & Adam)
9:00 pm till Evening snacks/libations in big house (everyone brings their own or
contributes to the common store)
Monday, November 3
8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00 am Warm ups, final technique session
10:00 – 10:30 am Break & set up for Showcase
10:45 – 12:00 noon Showcase Session (with ISW participants, in chapel or big room)
Small group presentations prepared in the afternoon playing
sessions. Session will end with a return to and tutti reading of
Encina’s Una sañosa porfia
12:00 on Pack, lunch and depart
End of IEDRW Fall 2014 Sessions