MEDIEVAL KEYBOARD MEETING 2013 

This blog gave information about the Medieval Keyboard Meeting in 2012. 

In 2013 there is again a Medieval Keyboard Meeting. 
For information about the new edition look at mkm2013.blogspot.nl.

DUTCH MEDIEVAL KEYBOARD MEETING 2012

Thursday, 30th August 2012, 10h00 – 18h00
Location: Chapel of the Conservatorium, Mariaplaats 28, Utrecht

A meeting around keyboards in medieval style: positive organ, portative organ (organetto), clavisimbalum, clavichord, clavicytherium. With demonstration of the instruments, lectures, musical presentations.

17h00: FINAL PRESENTATION: concert of the participants.

For the complete schedule: see below.

Admission is free. At the exit listeners can give a free gift.

Registration: preferably via the Facebook event. Do you not have Facebook? Send an e-mail to jos.vandergiessen[at]gmail.com.
Assistant production: Daniela Tomaz

For participants and listeners:

Tuesday, 28th August, 14h00 – 21h00:

ORGAN TRIP to the Van Stratenorgel in Orgelpark Amsterdam and the organ of Oosthuizen.

Registration required; please send an e-mail to jos.vandergiessen[at]gmail.com (preferably before Sunday, 26th August, 12h00).

And further during this week:

- Sunday, 26th August, 11h00, Paushuize: 
fringe concert of Maria Bayley with Ars Lusitana; 
- Sunday, 26th August, 15h00, Catharijneconvent: 
ensemble Tre Fontane, with Daniela Tomaz, Ilil Danin, Yeni Gomez;
- Monday, 27th August, 15h30, Oranje Fonds, Maliebaan 18:
fringe concert of Cristina Alis Raurich with Hamelin Consort;
- Wednesday, 29th August, 14h00, Kunstuitleen:
fringe concert of Cristina Alis Raurich with Le Souvenir.

DUTCH MEDIEVAL KEYBOARD MEETING 2012

S c h e d u l e

10:00          Musica aperitiva

10:10          Maria Bayley & Isaac Alonso de Molina

Lecture/demonstration (on clavisimbalum) about Codex Perugia: a late 15th century manuscript found in 2007, consisting of 12 loose unordered folios, most of them with two staffed music written for a keyboard instrument. They will propose a structure for the source, and analyze the peculiarities of its notation

10:45          Andreas Hermert

Lecture about medieval proportions and some instruments built by him ('Erlangen' clavichord, clavisimbalum)

11:20          Break

11:50          Michael Dollendorf & Ellen Hünigen

Lecture/demonstration (gothic harp, clavichord, voice): How to sustain sound? About the problems of transferring vocal music to "breathless" instruments. With an example of a chanson transcription from the Codex Reina/Codex Faenza and a comparison of sound with music from Codex Faenza, Lochamer Liederbuch and Buxheimer Orgelbuch

12:25          Niels Berentsen

Lecture: Vocal vs. Keyboard Improvisation in the 15th century. Niels aims to demonstrate different types of vocal extemporized polyphony. He will attempt a comparison between the nature of vocal (“multiplayer”) improvisation vs. (“single player”) keyboard improvisation as described in Conrad Paumanns Fundamenta

13:00          Break

14:15          Catalina Vicens 

Workshop: Catalina & disciple Jos will work on French repertoire of the Codex Faenza, starting on the gothic organ, and maybe trying other instruments

14:50          Walter Chinaglia

Lecture about his instruments (organetti, gothic organ): iconography, basic ideas, buttons vs piano keys, bag bellows vs folded bellows, dimension, sound etc. Catalina will demonstrate the instruments

15:25          Cristina Alis Raurich

Cristina will present the clavicytherium, & play organetto & clavicytherium, with and without the Le Souvenir (Ryosuke Sakamoto, lute)

16:00          Break

17:00          Final presentation: concert of the participants  

   The instruments

   gothic organ (by Walter Chinaglia)

   clavichord (& Andreas Hermert)

   organetti (by Walter Chinaglia)

   clavisimbalum (by Andreas Hermert)


   clavicytherium (by Matthias Griewisch) & Hamelin Consort