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week one : 23 July - 30 July
The Austro-German Baroque, and a feature of the works of Hans Werner Henze, who we hope will be in residence. Auden worked with Henze on several operas and this week will see ‘Elegy for Young Lovers’ staged. Auden’s translation of the medieval ‘Play of Daniel’ will be a participatory project performed by the end of the week. I Fagiolini, directing vocal workshops, will also present their dramatised version of Monteverdi’s Madrigals (Book 4) ‘The Full Monteverdi’. The first of two weeks of jazz, and of composition for film.
one week courses
Choir
Director Robert Hollingworth
Biber Vespers (1693)
Schein Da Jakob vollendet hatte
and works by Schutz.
Orchestral Workshop
Director Nathaniel Vallois
Open to all, this course will study a selection of orchestral favourites.
Vocal Chamber Music
Director I Fagiolini
I Fagiolini will focus primarily on Monteverdi's 4th book of madrigals. This is tricky but fabulous stuff so it is important to get comfortable with the Italian and the notes before you come. Pre-formed groups are especially welcome and male voices crucial.
Chamber Music
Coordinator Nathaniel Vallois
Zephyr Quartet
variable hours per day
The Summer School offers
an extensive string and wind chamber music programme which is organised by
Nathaniel Vallois, Jean & Raymond Greenlees, Barbara-Sue White and Laurence
Perkins. Varying ensembles (according to standard, instrument and preference)
play together informally and coaching is available to players of all levels
in either pre-formed or informal groups. The availability of professional
tutors and chamber music associates offers amateurs the opportunity to be
coached and also to play with professionals in some sessions. There is also
the opportunity to participate in more advanced chamber music sessions (please
see course descriptions for further details). If you would like to take part
in the chamber music programme, please fill in the chamber music form on
the back of the financial assistance application form. We hope that there
will be some opportunities for performance.
Lectures
Edward Mendelson - The life of W.H. Auden
Hans Werner Henze - Auden the librettist.
Masterclasses
Stephen Varcoe Voice
Mikhail Kazakevich Piano
David Miller Lute
Emma Murphy Recorder
Workshops
Sheila Barnes Voice
Colin Booth Harpsichord
Harpsichord Masterclasses
Director Colin Tilney
‘The early seventeenth-century variation’
Students should prepare one variation set by Sweelinck, plus two by an English virginalist - Byrd, Bull, Gibbons, Farnaby or Tomkins - for preference, not two by the same composer (Sweelinck: Monumenta Musica Neerlandica. English: Musica Britannica For Byrd - also My Lady Nevell's Book (Dover))
African Drumming Workshops
Director Liz Hall
Liz Hall leads a week of workshops in West African music, with a special emphasis on Ghana. This music is great fun and engaging, but certainly not easy. You will find yourself playing traditional drums using hands and sticks, singing in harmonies, dancing (and exercising muscles you didn’t know you had). By the end of the week she will guarantee sore hands, a hoarse throat, and aching thighs (just wait and see!). You’ll also find yourself thinking about African drumming very differently and learn to perform some truly fabulous music.
There are classes at different levels during each day, one for beginners and another for people with more experience of rhythm-based music. Families and children are welcome (minimum age 8) as long as they bring enthusiasm and concentration.
Chamber Choir
Director Jonathan Tilbrook
Carrisimi Jephte arr. Henze
Numbers are limited and places for this balanced choir will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Medieval and Renaissance Music
Director The Dufay Collective
Vivien Ellis voice
Paul Bevan early brass, recorders, percussion
Giles Lewin vielle, oud, voice
Bill Lyons early flutes, recorders, shawms, percussion
Susanna Pell vielle
Peter Skuce keyboards, medieval harp
This year the Medieval and Renaissance music course will focus on The Play
of Daniel (see description below), culminating
in a semi-staged performance.
In addition, there will be a reduced course focusing on early music ranging from the 12th to the 16th centuries. Run by individual members of the Dufay Collective throughout the week. Participants should bring all their own instruments and be of sufficient standard to read music and work in mixed ensembles. There will also be the opportunity for those studying in this group to take part in the chorus for The Play of Daniel.
The Play of Daniel
Director Pete Harris
Music Directors The Dufay Collective
The Play of Daniel is a 13th century liturgical drama. Singers, selected by audition, will work alongside participants and tutors of the Medieval and Renaissance Music course, towards a semi-staged performance on 28th July. W.H. Auden’s English translation of the Latin text will be used.
Roles: Belshazzar's Prince, Belshazzar, two Wise Men, Belshazzar's Queen, Daniel, Darius, two Advisors, First Legate, First Envious Counsellor, Second Envious Counsellor, First Angel, Habakkuk, Second Angel.
Applications from all voice types welcome. Applications for this course must be made by 15 April 2005. Please send a covering letter, CV, recording of your singing, a reference and a stamped addressed envelope if you would like your recording returned.
Auditions will be held on 6 May at Trinity College of Music, London.
Viol Consorts
Directors The Rose Consort of Viols ‘The Italian Connection’
An exploration of the influence of Italian music on the repertory enjoyed by English viol players around 1600, including some of the madrigals by Luca Marenzio and other Italians ‘Englished’ by Nicholas Yonge and Thomas Watson, and the influential music of Alfonso Ferrabosco Senior. We will also investigate the elegant consort music composed by members of the Italian families who dominated English court music at the time: Ferrabosco Junior, Bassano, Lupo and Mico. Singers with secure sight-reading are welcome to work alongside the viols in pieces ‘apt for voyces and vialls’, such as consort songs, madrigals and verse anthems. In addition there will be opportunities for beginners to try the viol.
Elizabethan Jigges
Director Lucie Skeaping
with Jon Banks
'The Elizabethan/Jacobean Jigge’
This course explores one of the most popular theatrical genres of the 17th century, the ‘Jigge’. We will study, rehearse and perform one or two complete Jigges: Thomas Jordan’s ‘The Cheaters Cheated’ (c.1660) and/or (depending on time) Will Kemp’s ‘Singing Simpkin’ (c. 1591). Jigges were short theatrical comedy-farces that featured songs, visual tricks and dancing. They could be politically satirical, sentimental, libellous, riotous and downright rude, and frequently attracted disorderly crowds, much to the despair of the authorities.
Both Jigges are thru-sung to popular tunes of the day. We will create a band (cittern, curtal, bassoon, guitar, lute, recorder, fiddle, bass viol particularly welcome) and audition the solo vocalists (acting skills, character voices most useful). We will work on musical arrangements and appropriate instrumentation, vocal characterisation and stagecraft, leading to a final informal performance. Further information is available from the DISS office on request.
Introduction to Improvisation
Director Simon Nicholls
Once part and parcel of musical training, improvisation has returned to modern music making and education as an essential skill for players, pupils and teachers. This is a course for those who would like to start improvising but don't know how, and for improvisers who would like to extend their experience. Simon Nicholls offers a variety of ways into this field, always encouraging immediate unpremeditated response as the basis for gaining confidence. Instruments and voices of all standards welcome.
Balinese Gamelan and Dance
Director Steve Bolton
The ancient gamelans of Bali thrive today more than ever as a steady stream of enthusiasts from all over the world continue to explore its rich sound world. People who had never thought of themselves as musicians quickly learn how to play, compose, and most importantly how to listen, in what must be one of the world's most convivial learning environments.
The instruments of the gamelan vary widely in terms of the level of musicianship required to play them and therefore anybody, regardless of age or previous musical experience, is welcome to take part in this week of Balinese gamelan and dance culminating in a short informal performance.
Early Brass - Consort of Cornetts & Sackbutts
FULL
TIME
Directors David Staff & Sue Addison
The early brass course gives those interested in early brass, this week principally Cornetts & Sackbuts, the chance to spend an intensive week working at sixteenth and seventeenth century repertoire. Playing skills and stylistic matters are dealt with in depth. In time-honoured tradition, twice daily, the class ascends the Dartington Hall tower to give performances of the music studied in the class. Other performance opportunities are often found in the Summer School’s evening concerts. It is possible to attend one or both weeks of this course.
Jazz / Jazz Improvisation
Directors Keith Tippett & Lewis Riley
Course tutors Julie Tippetts - Voice, Paul Dunmall - Saxophones,
Peter Fairclough - Drums, Dave Goodier - Double Bass
This jazz course is open to instrumentalists and singers, with or without jazz experience, and covers a wide range of styles and approaches, with an emphasis on improvisation. There will be three daily workshops led by Lewis Riley (standard and Latin jazz), Julie Tippetts (vocal improvisation) and Keith Tippett (contemporary improvisation) as well as individual help from the course tutors. All are welcome regardless of age or standard; all you need is an instrument / voice and to be serious about the music. It is possible to attend one or both weeks of this course.
two week courses
Film Music Composition
FULL TIME
Director Miguel Mera
This two-week course offers an exploration of the aesthetic, creative and technical possibilities of film music composition. Some time will be spent analysing existing film works, but the focus will be on the creation of new pieces. A mixture of both group and individual work will allow composers to approach film music composition from a variety of perspectives. Compositional fluency is a pre-requisite, but applicants need not have written ‘film music’ previously. Work composed during the course will be performed by the Opus 20 string ensemble and showcased in an end-of-course screening.
Applications for this course must be made by 22nd April 2005. Please send an application form, covering letter, CV, 2 scores and a recording (if available), a reference and a large stamped addressed envelope if you would like your scores / recording returned.
Britten - Paul Bunyan
Director Richard Williams
Music Director Orlando Jopling
Paul Bunyan is rooted in the mythical tales and poetic rhymes - in ballad, folk-song, blues and hymn - of "Americana". The operetta follows the gentle giant, Paul Bunyan, his family and local townspeople, who struggle to overcome the difficulties of life in the New World. In doing so, the work probes both the confrontation of nature and industrialization, and the politics and morals of American history. This course will lead to staged performances in week 2.
Applications for this course must be made by 15 April. Please send a CV, a recording of your singing, a reference and a stamped addressed envelope if you would like your recording returned.
Henze - Elegy for Young Lovers
FULL TIME
Director Tim Hopkins
Music Director David Angus
The second week of a two-week course.
Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers is
a brilliant study of the effects of power, both in those who wield it and
those who are the victims. The opera is centred on a manipulative poet,
Gregor Mittenhofer, who feeds his art with the lives of those around him.
The Auden-Kallman libretto presents a variety of verse styles and the highly
structured text is matched in Henze's musical setting by an intricate network
of set pieces - arias, recitatives and ensembles.
Please note that the dates for this course are 16 July - 30 July.
Applications must be made by 15 April. Please send a CV, a recording of your singing, a reference and a stamped addressed envelope if you would like your recording returned.
Gregor
Mittenhofer a poet (baritone)
Carolina Gräfin von Kirchstetten his secretary (contralto)
Dr Wilhelm Reischmann a physician (bass)
Toni Reischmann his son (tenor)
Elisabeth Zimmer (soprano)
Hilda Mack a widow (soprano)
Josef Mauer an Alpine guide (spoken)
