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RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES: DR SHIRLEY THOMPSON & PROFESSOR GRAHAM SADLER – A FRENCH BAROQUE DOUBLE BILL
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In the second of our public research seminars join us for a stimulating double bill looking at the French Baroque: ‘How the Earth Moved for Charpentier’’
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Music by Lully, Charpentier, Lalande and their French successors contains a form of notation which remains largely misunderstood in practice. It takes the form of repeated notes (usually crotchets or minims) marked with slurs or a wavy line. This paper focuses on evidence in French scores and writings which provides some insight into the intended manner of performance. As the notation invariably occurs in passages of heightened emotion and/or cataclysmic activity, the findings presented here are likely to transform the way in which these are performed and perceived.
PUBLIC MASTERCLASS WITH TINE THING HELSETH (TRUMPET)
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Tine Thing Helseth trumpet Undergraduate and Postgraduate students from Birmingham Conservatoire Young Norwegian star Tine Thing Helseth is rapidly carving a name for herself in the international music scene. As a classical player, Helseth has played with orchestras across the world and, this year, has debuted at Wigmore Hall and the BBC Proms. She proves her versatility further as creator and leader of a ten-piece brass ensemble (tenThing) and jazz quintet (TTHQ). Helseth is developing the use of classical training in an exciting and successful direction, being the first classical artist to be nominated for Newcomer of the Year at the 2007 Norwegian Grammy Awards.
‘When Rameau met Scarlatti’
It is now known that Domenico Scarlatti visited Paris twice during the mid 1720s, where he is presumed to have met Jean-Philippe Rameau at Crozat’s ‘Italian concerts’. How did this meeting impact on the two composers’ stylistic development? To what extent does Scarlatti’s use of techniques that Rameau claims to have invented – rotation of the hand over the thumb, spectacular hand-crossing, drum-like repetitions of a single note – stem from this encounter? And what significance do we attach to the fact that Rameau’s Nouvelles suites, written immediately after Scarlatti’s We would love you to join us for our lunchtime concert, research seminar departure, include a fandango in all but name…? and public masterclass today. A special ticket is available for just £8 (£6) 3:30pm - 5:00pm, New Lecture Theatre £4, Tickets available on the door
which allows entry into all three events.
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