Specifics of Styles and Performance Practice
Ornamentation
Mastering Trills and Fioratura
Ups-and-downs of Baroque Intonation
Musical Collaboration with Period Instruments
Understanding the Baroque Aesthetic
The OVAA approach to Baroque music emphasizes the luster and panache inherent in this multi-faceted and sophisticated genre. The faculty’s fluency in the intricacies of performance practice ensures that the course is appropriate and valuable for anyone from the beginner to the experienced Early Music professional.
The Baroque is one of the most challenging and exciting musical eras and includes a plethora of forms, styles and cultural flavors spanning over 150 years of artistic expression. Dresden is the ideal place to delve into the flair and virtuosity of Baroque singing: it is a city whose art and architecture were born out of this same extravagant aesthetic which, remarkably, is as fresh and relevant today as when it was the pop culture of its time.
OVAA will help you explore stylistic nuances, like the interpretive differences between a Dowland lute song, a J.S. Bach solo cantata, and a Händel opera aria, and understand how the intricacies of intonation can truly bring historic compositions to life.