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Amherst Early Music online: In Nomine – The Viol PLayer’s Favorite Chant
October 4, 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
$25Join us for AEM ONLINE classes each weekend! Register for any number of sessions – classes are $25 per session. Registration opens each Monday for the weekend classes! Click here for more information.
In Nomine: The Viol PLayer’s Favorite Chant with Rosamund Morley
The foundation of a uniquely English consort form is a beautiful chant melody hidden in the “Benedictus” movement of a 6-part Taverner mass. For 150 years, from Taverner to Purcell, many English composers wrote beautiful polyphonic music based on this chant. In this class, less experienced viol players will have a chance to use the lovely In Nomine chant tune as the basis for a series of exercises applicable to all sizes of viol, and, technology permitting, will experience the joys of playing the In Nomine line in a consort piece or two! Geared to: the fairly new viol player, but all viols are welcome to join! Pitch: A=415.