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Class Descriptions and Schedule for the 5th Summer Texas Toot June 1 - 7, 2003 Classes will be held Monday - Friday, two classes in the morning, and three classes in the afternoon. Saturday morning will have "after-glow" classes (9:30 a.m. till 11:30 a.m.) - schedule to be announced. Additional details, including your class assignments, campus maps, etc., will be included in your registration packet. Please note that The Texas Toot reserves the right to substitute faculty or to change classes or scheduling due to extenuating circumstances. Please enter 1st and 2nd choices for each class period by entering a 1 or a 2 in the corresponding box. Remember to fill in your name, too! Name:    Comments:    Period 1 (9:00-10:20 am) 1.1 General Technique Class for All Recorder Players Instructor: Monday: Saskia Coolen and Frances Blaker Tuesday and Thursday: Frances Blaker Wednesday and Friday: Saskia Coolen 1.2 Recorder Consort: The England-Continental Connection Instructor: Tom Zajac English composers who worked in Europe, and French, Dutch, Italian, etc. composers who got gigs on the British Isles (mostly 16th century) 1.3 Intermediate/Advanced Viol Consort Instructor: Martha Bishop Dowland Lachrymaes for one treble, at least one tenor, with the three lower parts reserved for basses. 1.4 Mixed Consort Instructor: Becky Baxter Arranging Playford tunes for solo or with a friend. All voices and instruments welcome. 1.5 Lute Technique Instructor: Bruce Brogdon Open to beginners as well as novice and intermediate players 1.6 Making & maintenance of double reeds Instructor: Sara Funkhouser Primarily for shawms and krummhorns Break (10:20-10:40 am) Period 2 (10:40-11:55 am) 2.1 20th Century recorder ensemble Instructor: Saskia Coolen 2.2 Masterclass on divisions and other virtuosic Renaissance music Instructor: Frances Blaker 2.3 Baroque Duet Masterclass Instructor: Jan Jackson For intermediate level recorder 2.4 Recorder Consort Instructor: Frank Shirley The music of Dowland and Holborne 2.5 Reed Consort Instructor: Sara Funkhouser Playing of capped reed instruments, mostly krummhorns and cornemusen 2.6 English Consort Songs Instructors: James Brown and Kathlene Ritch Brown Advanced intermediate level ensemble coaching open to voices, viols, and lutes. Consort groupings to be determined and repertoire mailed to students for advance preparation, so sign up early. 2.7 "Verrie Easie Music with Viol Friends" Instructor: Martha Bishop For all levels 2.8 Intermediate Harp Instructor: Becky Baxter Lunch (12:00 noon - 1:20 pm) Period 3 (1:20-2:40 pm) 3.1 Recorder Consort Instructor: Saskia Coolen Six and seven part music, Parsons, etc. calling for lots of lower recorders. 3.2 Recorder Techique for all levels Instructor: Frances Blaker Based on her technique book 3.3 Beginning Recorder Instructor: Jan Jackson For people who already read music 3.4 Recorder Consort Instructor: Sara Funkhouser The music of Sweelinck and Jacques Buus for intermediate and advanced recorder players 3.5 Technique/repertoire for shawms and bagpipes Instructor: Tom Zajac 3.6 The ever-popular Violin band consort Instructor: Laurie Young Stevens 3.7 Gems of the English consort repertoire - Viols only Instructor: James Brown Advanced beginner - lower intermediate viol consort. Doubling allowed. Emphasis on improving ensemble skills and individual technique. 3.8 17th century English song Instructors: Daniel Johnson and Bruce Brogdon Lute song, songs from masques, and continuo song -- Lanier to Purcell -- in a masterclass format 3.9 Drumming your way to better musicianship Instructor: Peggy Sexton Help with rhythm and improvisation, starting with percussion instruments only and gradually adding other instruments throughout the week. Break (2:40-3:00 pm) Period 4 (3:00-4:20 pm) 4.1 Masterclass Instructor: Saskia Coolen Focusing on early English music and Dutch music (16th - 18th centuries) 4.2 Renaissance Recorders Consort Instructor: Frances Blaker High intermediate to advanced recorder players who have and can play Renaissance recorders 4.3 Practicing the Recorder Instructor: Jan Jackson Specific techniques for warming up and improving use of tongue and fingers, breathing/tone, playing in tune, sight reading, analysis, ways to drill difficult passages, playing "slow" movements/pieces, best use of your metronome, practicing without the recorder. For intermediate players down through actually-having-started-a-bit. 4.4 Medieval dance survey Instructor: Tom Zajac With a make-your-own estampie workshop as part of it 4.5 Advanced Viol Consort Instructor: Martha Bishop Brownings: Belwin, Bevin, Byrd, Baldwyn, Bishop 4.6 "Doable Divisions" for viols Instructor: James Brown A sampling of some of the more approachable divisions by Simpson, Finger, and others. Help with various techniques required to successfully perform these important gems of the viol literature. Some repertoire to be amiled in advance - sign up early. 4.7 Baroque Technique Instructor: Laurie Young Stevens For intermediate and advanced violinists 4.8 Beginning Harp Instructor: Becky Baxter 4.9 English lute song / part song class Instructors: Daniel Johnson and Bruce Brogdon For soloists and small ensembles Period 5 (4:30-5:15 pm) Special Classes presented by various faculty Registration is closed for this event Evening Events Sunday 7:30 pm Orientation meeting followed by Group Playing Sessions, teachers TBA Monday 7:30 pm Lecture-Demo on Music from the Lowlands and British Isles, 1500-1700; Dr. Frank Candelaria, musicologist, UT-Austin; with examples performed by Faculty and Guests; followed by ice cream social Tuesday 7:00 pm Pre-Concert Madrigal Singing, directed by Frank Shirley   7:30 pm Solo lute concert by Hector Sequera. Followed by Group Playing Sessions Wednesday 7:30 pm The Great Texas Krummhorn Konklave, led by Tom Zajac, site TBA Thursday 7:00 pm Pre-Concert Madrigal Singing, directed by Frank Shirley   7:30 pm Faculty concert, followed by Group Playing Sessions Friday 7:30 pm Student concert, followed by reception

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