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NEXT WORKSHOP: ALISON CRUM ONLINE!

Saturday, October 10, 2020 10:00 am PDT

via Zoom

Free for members

$15 for non-members

Supplemental preparatory session
with Adaiha MacAdam-Somer

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Playing the dots: a practice in slow and fast dotted passages

Almost every piece of music includes dotted notes, in many different contexts, and at all sort of speeds. Having a viol bow in your hand makes the playing of dotted notes much harder than one might think! This workshop is all about how to play dotted notes, depending on the musical situation and style. We will look at several short extracts drawn from the standard English consort repertoire, including some early pieces by Mundy, Gibbons, Byrd, Ferrabosco I and Tye, and then some later examples of music by Ward, Jenkins and Purcell.

In between working on these various examples Alison will talk a little about various different bow holds. We might even do a bit of plucking, since this often clarifies the rhythm and enhances the effect of dotted notes.