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Students
interested in performing music written before 1650 may
wish to join one or more of the approximately twelve
ensembles that specialize in early music at FSU. The
Early Music Ensemble (Jeffery Kite-Powell,
director) consists of consorts of homogeneous and mixed
instruments that perform music of the Renaissance and
Middle Ages. This group also serves as a pool of instrumentalists
for large-scale polychoral motets and concertos. Consorts
vary from semester to semester, but there are always
a couple of recorder ensembles, a shawm band, and a
crumhorn consort; in some semesters there is a curtal
or dulcian consort, a sackbut ensemble, and/or a consort
of rackets; each consort rehearses twice a week.
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Viola
da Gamba |
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Cornett
& Sackbut |
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Recorder
(SsSATB)
(beginning, intermediate, advanced) |
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Crumhorn
(SATB) |
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Curtal
(SATB) |
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Racket
(TTBGbCb) |
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Shawm
(SSATTB) |
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Schreierpfeif
(SAT) |
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Lute/Theorbo/Cittern |
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Mixed
or Broken Consort |
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Medieval
Ensemble (harp,
psaltery, portative organ, vielle, rebec, hurdy-gurdy,
bagpipe and tabor) |
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Combined
Ensembles (several
of the above groups in large-scale, polychoral works)
with organ, harpsichord, regal, and theorbo continou |
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Cantores
Musicae Antiquae (Jeffery
Kite-Powell, director) was referred to as "FSU's
heavenly Renaissance choir" in the Tallahassee
Democrat just after it was formed in the fall
of 1989. The group consists of 5 to12 singers,
often one on a part, and is comprised of undergraduates,
masters, and doctoral students. It specializes
in the music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance,
and early Baroque. Some students are voice majors,
while others study music education, choral conducting,
musicology, or some other discipline in music.
Two full-length concerts per year are common for
this group of singers, and they have performed
for the American Musicological Society regional
conventions in Tallahassee, Tuscaloosa, Lafayette,
New Orleans (twice), and Palm Beach. They have
also performed at the national meetings of the
Theory Society and the Society for Seventeenth-Century
Music, as well as at the statewide (Florida) convention
of the American Choral Director’s Association.
The ensemble has been broadcast twice on National
Public Radio’s Millennium of Music.
While this group performs mostly a cappella,
it is often combined with members of the Early
Music Ensemble for large concerted works. |
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FSU
Viols (Prof. Pamela Andrews, director)
consists of five or six consorts of three to six
members each and is indisputably the largest collegiate
viola da gamba program in the country. A wide range
(1500-1650) of music is performed by the top consorts
in two concerts per year. |
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The
Baroque Ensemble (Valerie Arsenault, director)
consists of small groups of singers and instrumentalists
who perform music of the 17th and 18th centuries.
A small Baroque orchestra has been assembled on
occasion for special events. |
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FSU
Baroque Trumpet Ensemble (Bryan Goff, director)
is an ensemble of trumpet students who perform on
natural trumpets. This group has performed in Europe
at the International Trumpet Guild conference. |
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The
Early Music Program together with the Opera
Program has mounted fully-staged productions
of Claudio Monteverdi’s Coronation of Poppea
(1993), and John Eccles’s Semele (2003); Eccles’s
Judgment of Paris will be performed in the spring
of 2005 at the International John Eccles Conference
being hosted by FSU. |
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