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This workshop is for conductors who want to improve their understand of early music and learn skills to help unlock the hidden rhetorical gesture in polyphony. We will focus on the ways that conducting gesture can help singers understand the difference between syllabic or rhetorical stress and metric stress, using classic examples from the repertoire where those two goals, rhetoric and meter, are in conflict.
Six conductors will be chosen to work with eight of Portland’s most experienced professional singers. Each participant will have 30 minutes of podium time and receive feedback from RCR Artistic Director John K. Cox and the professional singers.
The auditor (non-conducting participant) fee for the workshop is $40.
Full-participant workshop fee is $175, for which you will receive:
Two hour morning discussion and practice session with John Cox covering:
-musica ficta demystified in three simple rules
-triplex or sesquialtera, a guide to proportions
-strategies for high-tenor/low-alto parts
-key, temperament, and transposition as performance practice.
-identifying moments to abandon the pattern
-classic conflicts of text and meter (Sicut cervus, O Magnum, etc)
Three-hour afternoon rehearsal with 8 professional singers
-each participant will have three 5-minute blocks to address challenging passages in well-known works
-each participant will have one 15-minute block to rehearse a large section of an unknown (no recording available) work. The interpretative decisions will be completely your own.
-each participant will receive verbal and written feedback from the soloists and John
-each participant will receive video footage of their sessions that they may use for any purpose.
This workshop is for conductors who want to improve their understand of early music and learn skills to help unlock the hidden rhetorical gesture in polyphony. We will focus on the ways that conducting gesture can help singers understand the difference between syllabic or rhetorical stress and metric stress, using classic examples from the repertoire where those two goals, rhetoric and meter, are in conflict.
Six conductors will be chosen to work with eight of Portland’s most experienced professional singers. Each participant will have 30 minutes of podium time and receive feedback from RCR Artistic Director John K. Cox and the professional singers.
The auditor (non-conducting participant) fee for the workshop is $40.
Full-participant workshop fee is $175, for which you will receive:
Two hour morning discussion and practice session with John Cox covering:
-musica ficta demystified in three simple rules
-triplex or sesquialtera, a guide to proportions
-strategies for high-tenor/low-alto parts
-key, temperament, and transposition as performance practice.
-identifying moments to abandon the pattern
-classic conflicts of text and meter (Sicut cervus, O Magnum, etc)
Three-hour afternoon rehearsal with 8 professional singers
-each participant will have three 5-minute blocks to address challenging passages in well-known works
-each participant will have one 15-minute block to rehearse a large section of an unknown (no recording available) work. The interpretative decisions will be completely your own.
-each participant will receive verbal and written feedback from the soloists and John
-each participant will receive video footage of their sessions that they may use for any purpose.