UK, W.SUSSEX - THE MYSTERIES OF EARLY MUSIC , Michael Deason-Barrow, 4 Castle Farm Close, 02 Jun 2018
Sing & Explore New Worlds of Music from the Past (1000 – 1600) - including •Singing sublime Gregorian Chants •Meet the Sybil of the Rhine - Hildegard of Bingen - and sing her Canticles of Ecstasy •Explore the relationship between Musical Forms and the architecture of Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals, e.g. sing the music created for Chartres Cathedral. •Meet the Troubadours in the Courts of Love of Eleanor of Aquitaine •Sing the dancing rhythms of an Ars Nova piece replete with a hiccupping cuckoo •Sound out Street Cries & the music of the City Waites & join a Medieval Dance troupe •Enter into the Renaissance Blues of Dowland’s tearful Lachrimae •Live through the turbulent Reformation battles of Tallis and Byrd and hear how their music was influenced by the courts and chapels of the Tudor kings and queens and much more . . . .
