Quinquagesima Plainchant
St Monica's Chapel, Cote Lane, Bristol BS9 3UN
10am - 5pm
£25 (non-members); £20 (EMF members); £5 (18-25’s)
Organiser: Jonathan Tribe / treasurer@swemf.org.uk
https://swemf.org.uk/event/13131/
The Workshop
This workshop will introduce you to seasonal medieval chant (including the tract Jubilate Domino, and one of the Old Hispanic Lamentations chants), together with 13th-century polyphony.
All voice parts welcome. We will perform from a mixture of square notation and modern notation; you need to be able to read music, but prior experience with square notation is not necessary.
We will close the workshop with an informal performance of some of the music from the day.
The Tutor
Professor Emma Hornby teaches at Bristol University, specialising in medieval music. Her research focuses on western liturgical chant, and she currently works on Old Hispanic chant, in a series of international collaborations which have been funded by the European Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Leverhulme Trust. Recent work has explored the veneration of saints in medieval Iberia, musical handwriting and the development of Iberian musical notations, medieval processions, and the intersection of music and theology in the Middle Ages.
The Venue
St Monica’s spacious Chapel is within St Monica’s Home of Rest adjacent to Clifton Downs. It is a lovely grade II listed building in Perpendicular Gothic Revival style, designed by Sir Geoffrey Oakley for H.H.Wills and built in 1925.
At the end of the day there will be a run-through of the pieces we have studied which will be open to the residents.
Please bring your own food for lunch. Tea & coffee will be available, but please supply your own mug.
Lifts from Temple Meads station may be possible.
Further Details and Application Forms:
Please note:
- To book multiple places on a workshop, please fill in a separate form for each person, but a single payment is fine.
- The online form below does not support the special 18-25's price.
If you fall into this category, please explain in the "Other information" box and send the appropriate amount.
Workshop information (to print out and keep)
Paper booking form (to print out and post)