Hello everybody
Welcome to our channel: "Singing upon the book at the Renaissance"
Singing upon the book, at the Renaissance,
means adding extra vocal parts, while singing,
to a melody written in the book.
The book can be a collection of sacred music,
such as a gradual or an antiphonary,
as well as a songbook.
Singing upon the book means adding extra vocal parts
in live performance, without noting them down,
to a basic melody which is called the cantus firmus.
You can thus add one,
two,
three,
even four voices to this cantus firmus,
and then switch from monody to polyphony.
To create these extra vocal lines
the singer obviously has to know
a few principles of counterpoint
the art of superposing melodic lines.
Well, precisely, the videos you will find on this channel
describe the various techniques of counterpoint
that will enable you to sing upon the book
As you can see on the homepage of our channel,
they appear in different sections,
according to the number of parts and the technique in use.
The viewer can, of course, choose to watch them
in the order he finds suitable.
Two final points:
you can also "play upon the book",
using instruments instead of voices;
you will therefore hear instrumental polyphonies
in some of the videos.
Lastly, you can also do without the cantus firmus,
and wholly improvise all of the parts;
this is what happens in the various kinds of canons, for example.
Structure of the videos
Each video comes in two parts.
The first part features musicians singing upon the book,
according to a given technique.
The second part goes into the details of that technique,
with words,
notated musical examples
and sound excerpts of the piece recorded above.
To go further, do not forget to refer
to the description of the video
Uploading
As you can see on our homepage,
this channel is now under construction,
and numerous videos are still to come.
Gradually, at a rate of about one per month,
we will upload them.
"We" means Antonin and myself.
(He is the editor).
With our little hands, we patiently make up these videos,
which are produced by
the Conservatoire National Supérieur de musique
et de danse of Lyon.
Then do subscribe to the channel
so we can let you know about our latest videos!
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