MEDIEVAL MUSIC DAYS 2023
MEDIEVAL MUSIC DAYS 2023 SCHEDULE:
Reverdies Montréal presents
AU TOUR DE MACHAUT
This year our Medieval Music Days will feature the music of Guillaume de Machaut,
and his influence during the 14th and 15th centuries. The Black Death of the 1340’s divided the century in two.
From the first period, far less music has survived.
Machaut however emerges from this time to lead European music into a new era,
synthesizing existing musical-poetic movements, most notably that of the troubadours
and of ars nova style. Machaut’s work refined ars nova notation, allowing for increasing
rhythmic complexity; he was also instrumental in consolidating the "formes fixes" of French poetry.
These developments created a framework for French, Flemish, Italian, and English
composers well into the early 15th century.
Westmount Park United ChurchQuebec
4695 de Maisonneuve blvd.Quebec
Westmount, Quebec
An immersive weekend in the fascinating musical world of long ago! Concerts and workshops, led by passionate and renowned musicians, gifted in
transmitting the breadth of their expertise with generosity and enthusiasm.
An experience for music-lovers and musicians and singers of all levels,
for those who wish to participate actively or simply to listen and discover
the beauty and lively spirit of medieval music
TICKETS
Friday October 13, 8:00 PM
Concert with ensembles Reverdies Montréal & Comtessa "De bon espoir" - The music of Guillaume de Machaut
Machaut (ca.1300-1377) is a towering figure of European musical and
literary history. Highly prolific and innovative, his work influenced generations of poets
and composers during and after his time. He explored virtually every poetic and musical genre of the
period, both sacred and secular; his work had a major impact on the development of poetic and musical
forms and on musical notation. All of this is even more astonishing in light of
the fact that Machaut lived during what has been dubbed “the calamitous 14th century”, a time of war, unrest and plague.
Ensembles Reverdies Montréal and Comtessa: Rebecca Bain (voice, vielle, percussions), Femke
Bergsma (voice, vielle, flutes), Bruno Cognyl-Fournier (lute gittern), Alain Vadeboncoeur (voice), Isabelle Douailly-Backman (vielle),
Gabrielle Cloutier (voice)
Saturday October 14 - 10:00 AM:
Lecture with Rebecca Bain, an introduction to the music of Guillaume de Machaut
Saturday October 14 - 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM: Workshop with Femke Bergsma, Rebecca Bain and Alain Vadeboncoeur: amateur singers and instrumentalists will learn to play selected works by Machaut.
Saturday October 14 - 5:30 PM:
Concert with ensemble Ursa Major "Les echos du coeur" - Machaut, precursor of a new generation. Music by Machaut and from the Cyprus manuscript
Ensemble Ursa Major: Leah Weitzner (voice), Namgon Lee (vielle) et Ellis Montes (voice,recorder, pipe and tabor)
Saturday October 14 - 6:30 PM:
The concert will be followed by a reception including a complimetary apéritif. Please join us then for a potluck dinner.
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