SYLLABUS
One-year postgraduate course aimed at active professionals or pre-professionals in renaissance and baroque repertoires (singers and instrumentalists - recorder, shawm, dulcian, cornetto, sackbut, viol, lute, harp, keyboard instruments, etc.) who are interested in developing their experience in polyphonic repertoires from the 16th-18thcenturies within an applied philological framework.
The goal is to stimulate the concept of the Historically Formed Performer as opposed to the idea of Historically Informed Performance. In order to achieve this, students will receive specialized training which focusses on the performance of polyphonic repertoire from 1500’-1700’ in direct contact with historical sources, the command of historical learning techniques such as solmization, canon, counterpoint, diminution and improvisation, and the understanding of fundamental theoretical aspects such as counterpoint, modality, rhetoric and poetics.
The course brings upon itself also the mission of recovering and bringing to light unpublished or less studied repertoire through public performances and audio recordings.
The different fields of study are articulated and converge around laboratorial and performative moments organized in ten sessions of 24 hours each, held on weekends (Friday to Sunday). Different repertoires will be approached according to the profile of the selected candidates.
CURRICULUM
Performance Practice: 84h; Projects: 54h; Sight Reading & Solmization: 14h; Compositional Techniques & Counterpoint: 14h; Improvisation & Contraponto alla mente: 14h; Diminution: 14h;
Music in context: 12h; Mensural notation: 12h; Modes: 8h; Poetics: 8h
FACULTY
Pedro Sousa Silva PhD
Coordination, Performance Practice, Projects, Sight Reading & Solmization, Diminution, Music in Context
Eugénio Amorim PhD
Performance Practice, Projects, Sight Reading & Solmization, Music in Context, Compositional Techniques & Counterpoint
Hugo Sanches PhD
Performance Practice, Projects, Music in Context, Mensural Notation, Poetics
Ronaldo Lopes MA
Performance Practice, Projects, Diminution, Music in Context, Improvisation & Contraponto alla mente
José Abreu PhD
Compositional Techniques & Counterpoint, Music in Context, Improvisation & Contraponto alla mente, Mensural notation, Modes
SESSION DATES
ADMISSION
for singers and historic instrumentalists
numerus clausus: 8-12 students
1st phase
6 March - 18 April: Application
6-18 May: Entrance Exam
27-31 May: Enrolment
ENTRANCE EXAM
Non edited video recording of solo performance (renaissance or baroque repertory)
First sight intonation of renaissance melody*
Interview*
Curriculum evaluation
* by skype upon request
For detailed information about the application visit www.esmae.ipp.pt
